Comment Comment by tralarpa FORTRAN is seven years older than BASIC and uses the equal sign and variables in the same way. Here an excerpt from the 1957 paper by Backus et al.:"Evaluate the expression on the right of the = sign and make this the value of the variable on the left." parent tralarpa 5 years ago
"Evaluate the expression on the right of the = sign and make this the value of the variable on the left."