if <assignment>:

[Dan Bishop]

maney at pobox.com wrote in message news:<asbbq0$icu$2 at wheel2.two14.net>...

> Actually, though, didn't the notion of operator= come out of Algol? 
> <prayers are sent to Ghugle; his replies are interpeted>  Ooops, no,
> that was just "assignment spelled differently than equality test". 
> Never mind!

But didn't FORTRAN have that earlier (with = for assignment and .EQ. for equality)?