On 29 April 2018 at 01:34, Jeff Allen <ja...@farowl.co.uk> wrote:
> On 27/04/2018 08:38, Greg Ewing wrote:

> I speculate this all goes back to some pre-iteration version of FORmula
> TRANslation, where to its inventors '=' was definition and these really were
> "statements" in the normal sense of stating a truth.

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/equals-as-assignment/


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Eitan Adler
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