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From: ddb@starfire.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Precedent for use of =
Message-ID: <257@starfire.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 00:40:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 24 00:40:09 1986
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>            What we really need is a one-character assignment operator; ....
> ..........................................  The C convention is unfortunate
> for two reasons; first, it's unlike everyone else's.......................
> C. Wingate

Um, actually an early language called Fortran had a one-character
assignment operator.  Perhaps you've heard of Fortran?  I haven't, 
recently.  But anyway, it used the same little ol' character c uses,
namely the single equal sign.  Seems to me funny assignment operators
started with Algol.

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