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Lähettäjä: Lars Noodén
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Vastaanottaja: dng
Aihe: Re: [DNG] OT: some ancient programming language history
On 07/27/2015 07:07 PM, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 27/07/2015 17:45, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI a écrit :
>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:20:03 -0400
>> Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@???> wrote:
>>
>>> Or, as in APL, use => for assignment
>
>     You mean like in "b+c => a" ?

>
>     Interesting because assignment is an invention of imperative
> languages with no "natural" reason for the destination to be on the left
> side.


IIRC the Icon programming language had an exchange operator to swap the
contents of two variables.

    a :=: b


Or something like that.

Regards,
/Lars