[macspoofing]

>Yeah it sucks, but it's not really the language's fault.

Imagine a language were assignments were only done via := and comparisons with = or ==. A programmer would never encounter this error.

[david-given]

Ada does precisely this. (It also doesn't support assignment inside expressions at all.)

Modern Ada's a thoroughly nice language; I did a writeup: https://cowlark.com/2014-04-27-ada