9 Mar
2016
9 Mar
'16
midnight
Doug McIlroy scripsit:
Various aspects of the language were borrowed from
PL/I, BCPL and Algol
68. ++ and -- were novel operators. The reversal of Algol's assignment
operators (e.g. -= became =-) was eventually repealed in C.
Algol 68, like Algol 60 and Pascal, used := (pronounced "becomes") for
assignment, and the Algol 68 assignment operators were spelled :+=,
:-=, etc. (pronounced "plus and becomes", "minus and becomes", etc.)
Pre-increment operators were already known in Lisp 1.5 long before;
they are now spelled incf and decf in Common Lisp.
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