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• The operator symbol:

• = FORTRAN, BASIC, PL/I, C, C++, Java

• := ALGOLs, Pascal, Modula-2, Ada

• = can be bad if it is overloaded for the relational operator for equality (e.g. in PL/I, A = B = C; )

• Note difference from C