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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Re: Reading programs left-to-right.
Message-ID: <543@scc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 20:50:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 20:50:22 1985
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> In article <6571@boring.UUCP> jack@mcvax.UUCP (Jack Jansen) writes:
> >Why do most programming languages do assignments like
> >
>
> I think that it is mostly due to the legacy of Fortran, Algol, PL/I,
> etc. As to why these languages do it this way, I suspect that it has to
> do with mathematical notation.
> Barry Margolin
In English we say:
Fred is fat.
Black is white.
and generally ascribe the qualities on the right to the noun on
the left. Why would you want to do it another way in a programming
language?
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