C's syntax

[Mark Jackson]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

> is news to me.  Anyway, Pascal just took its ':=' from Algol (as did other
> languages, such as BCPL; C [its immediate predecessor B, actually] used

Fine point - if I recall correctly from the little code I've seen, BCPL
for the Xerox Alto used a left-pointing arrow (one of several
characters available outside of the usual set) for assignment.

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