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> [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 2:34 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: Virginia DOT outage
> 
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> I would absolutely LOVE a grass roots campaign to eliminate = 
> as a token 
> in any and all languages. Comparison should be ==. Assignment 
> should be 
> :=. No ambiguity there. No "intuitive" meaning for newbies to make an 
> assumption about.
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> I agree with the idea, but who's going to change all those 
> trillions of 
> lines of legacy source code?  :-)
> 
> Rick

I will. I can use the guarantee of continued employement!!!

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