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Re:Why Does “=” Mean Assignment? by roywiggins on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @06:46PM (#16806306)
It didn't actually contribute much to the evolution of other languages though, right? Had anyone even heard of it when Fortran/ALGOL/etc were being designed?
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Re:Why Does “=” Mean Assignment? by 80386 on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @02:52AM (#16808674)
Zuse seems to have been under the impression that some of the ALGOL designers were aware of it: https://books.google.com/books?id=AsvSBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA522&lpg=...

Rutishauser was, at least.

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