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From: steven@boring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Re: Reading programs left-to-right.
Message-ID: <6607@boring.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 12:11:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 12:11:31 1985
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Reply-To: steven@boring.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <543@scc.UUCP> steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) writes:
> In English we say:
> 
> 	Fred is fat.
> 	Black is white.
> 
> and generally ascribe the qualities on the right to the noun on
> the left.  Why would you want to do it another way in a programming
> language?

But we also say things like

	Put another coin in the juke-box
	Calculate how much you owe me, and deposit it in my account
	Send this message to my mother.

In "a=1", 1 is not a quality of a, but something stored there for awhile.

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@mcvax.uucp