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by jjgreen 2997 days ago
The syntax of C is a thing of beauty. The decision to use = for assignment and == for equality was natural, since assignment is more common than equality testing; similarly, articles are usually short words in natural languages. Algol 68 and Pascal got this wrong, and where are they now?
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Pascal got a new name and career as PL/SQL ;)