Dependence on Programming Experts

[Glenn E. Fisher]

on July 14, 2006 Alex Tweedly wrote:

> On the other hand, there are a variety of languages (Babbage !?, many
> variants of Basic) which don't have those issues, so simply allow a
> single "=" for assignment or for equality comparison.

Alex, I know you probably already know this, but the original Basic  
was like transcript (I know I'm set in my ways :-)) in that you had  
to say:

Let x = 5

(It made it easier to parse)

Have fun,

Glenn
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