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by Wowfunhappy 1865 days ago
The core problem with the BASIC syntax isn't the lack of a keyword, it's that stupid = sign. Assignment almost kind of means equals, except it actually totally doesn't, which is the absolute worst kind of resemblance. Oh, and now you also have to invent some other construct like == for actual equality!

I'm admittedly not sure what symbol should be used instead. I'd suggest <= except it reads as "less than or equal to".