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Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++?
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On 2/19/2011 10:24 AM, Marco wrote:
> "
> Use "=" rather than ":=" for assignment. Virtually all of the most popular programming languages use "=" for assignment, which is simpler and perfectly adequate.
> "
>    Yuck - this was one of the C mistakes - "==" is so goofy - I do a lot of programming in C and still think it was a mistake - Algol used := in 1960 so no excuses - saving key strokes is a stupid reason to do it the FORTRAN way but now we are stuck with it

The best symbol I've seen for assignment the left arrow used in APL and 
early versions of Smalltalk. It's just as short as the C/C++ "=", it 
quite nicely expresses what assignment does (moves the value on the 
right into the variable on the left), and it would never be confused 
with testing for equality. It's a pity that ASCII does not have a left 
arrow character.

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