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On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 11:48:30 +0100, BartC <bc@freeuk.com> declaimed the
following:

>
>(I think Fortran and PL/I also used "=" for assignment. Both were more 
>commercially successful than Algol or Pascal.)
>
	It did... but I'm sure we'd have a revolt if Python comparison
operators looked like:

	a .eq. b
	a .ne. b
	a .gt. b .or. c .lt. d
	a .le. b .and. c .ge. d

	Fortran 90 finally incorporated >= and kin as standard (some FORTRAN 77
compilers might have allowed them as non-standard extensions)... BTW: .eq.
is == in F90 (though, the .op. form is also valid), .ne. is /= (two
character representation of a slashed =).



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