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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ?
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rusi wrote:
> Good idea. Only you were beaten to it by about 2 decades.

More than 2, I think.

Lisp: (setq x y)

Algol: x := y

Smalltalk: x <- y (where <- is a "left arrow" character)

Cobol: MOVE X TO Y

-- 
Greg