DEV Community

Discussion on: Which mainstream programming language has the ugliest syntax?

Collapse
 
ben profile image
Ben Halpern

Can you tell me more about the := operator?

Collapse
 
lavigi profile image
eva

In Pascal, a:=33 would assign the value 33 to variable a. The is-equal operator was just =. It was less error prone than what finally stuck, thanks to C and Java ---> = to assign values, == to compare them.