William Chops" Westfield" wrote:
> x = x + 1
> It's obvious to anyone with a 6th grade algebra background that that's
> just WRONG, IMPOSSIBLE, and probably UNNATURAL.

I think this goes back to the very unfortunate choice by the Fortran
designers to use "=" as the assignment operator instead of the more natural
statement of equality.  Then they had to go and invent ".EQ." for the
statement of equality.

I always thought the assignment operator should be a arrow pointing from the
expression to what it was being stored in.  ASCII doesn't have left or right
arrows, but I think "<<" or maybe "<-" would have made a decent assignment
operator.  At least Pascal tried with ":=" and does use "=" for the
statement of equality.


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