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On Dec 20, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> =
wrote:

> A good point.  Shall I write a PEP asking for a language change which =
requires that that stupid =3D sign is replaced by a keyword reading =
something like =
thenameonthelefthandsideisassignedtheobjectontherighthandside ?

Or a symbol like :=3D. As a former Smalltalker, I still miss this as the =
assignment operator, and the =93gets=94 verbiage that went along with =
it. One said:

x :=3D 4

as in =93x gets 4=94

I always got a kick out of the following paragraph from =
http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.ht=
ml.

"1970 - Niklaus Wirth creates Pascal, a procedural language. Critics =
immediately denounce Pascal because it uses "x :=3D x + y" syntax =
instead of the more familiar C-like "x =3D x + y". This criticism =
happens in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented."=