Was also in MAD - Michigan (Univ of) Algorithm Decoder - 1960 vintage.

Peter Onion wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 10:45 -0400, Olin Lathrop wrote:
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>>  At least Pascal tried with ":=" and does use "=" for the
>> statement of equality.
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> You need to go further back than Pascal to find the original use of 
> ":= " ( which is read as "becomes" ).
>
> I think it first appeared in Algol 58.  (Yup, Wikipedia agrees).
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> PeterO
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