Python slang

[Random832]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, at 07:59, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 	The use of = also has a long history... FORTRAN (where the comparison
> was .EQ.), BASIC (granted, K&K required assignment to start with the
> keyword LET, so the use of = was mainly a delimiter between target and
> expression being assigned).

Visual Basic actually uses = for both assignment and comparison
*without* the Let keyword, it gets by on the fact that assignment is not
an expression.