PRECEDENT FOR USE OF =

[flaps at utcs.UUCP]

In article <1645 at brl-smoke.ARPA> JUNG_E%SITVXA.BITNET at WISCVM.WISC.EDU writes:
>Why can't C be like everybody else?  Practically every language uses
>the equals sign, "=", to test for equality, not as an assignment operator.
>...
>              Kernighan and Ritchie, in their infinite wisdom, decide
>instead to use "=" for assignments and to create a new operator, "==" to
>test for equality.

Not only that, they changed "begin" and "end" to { and }, changed "writeln"
to puts, and all sorts of awful things!  They made it into a WHOLE NEW
LANGUAGE!!!!!