Yes, I first came across := when learning (Turbo) Pascal in the early 90's.
However golang managed to screw it up—it only works there as a "short declaration AND assignment" operator. You can't use it twice on the same variable! Boggles the mind how experienced designers came up with that one. ;-) Maybe Algol did it that way? (before my time)
I found Pascal's syntax, := for assignment, = and <>, for tests about close to perfect in ease of learning/comprehension as it gets, from someone who studied math before C anyway.
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