From: acolvin@efunct.com   
      
   > [Interesting take.  In reality, of couse, BASIC borrowed that from Fortran.    
   Algol   
   > used := for assignment, different from = for equality comparison. -John]   
      
   Indeed.   
   Unfortunately, assignment is probably the single most common operator.   
   The ASCII committee should have kept the left-arrow character instead of   
   replacing it with underscore.   
      
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