From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:54:51 -0600, Louis Krupp wrote:   
      
   > FORTRAN was my first (computer) language.   
      
   Mine, too. Though I picked up “Programming In POP-2” soon after, and had   
   my mind suitably blown.   
      
   I think that gave me a sense of perspective about BASIC when I first   
   encountered that.   
      
   > the B5500 was replaced by a B6700, which used EBCDIC, ALGOL used ":="   
   > instead of the arrow, which I missed.   
      
   Nowadays, with Unicode, you can have “←” as well as “:=”. There is   
   even   
   U+2254 COLON EQUALS, “≔” as one character.   
      
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