Alexander Koryagin:

AK> C has already died.

The rumours of its death are greatly exagerrated.  It is one
of the most used languages with nary an alternative for
embedded systems.  Some major PC projects are developed in
C: GIMP, DarkTable, Git, NetPBM (for which I have written
several tools).

AK> It is too obsolete to be in use.

Why?  Although Modula and Pascal are much better languages,
they are not nearly as popular...

AK> C++ has replaced it.

C++ cannot replace C because it is a totally different
language with an opposite ideology.  C is a small, simple
and minimalistic procedural language, whereas C++ is a huge,
heavy and bloated object-oriented and multi-paradigm
monster.

AK> The matter IMHO is that the assignment operator "=" is
AK> the most frequent operator in C++.

Seems true.

AK> So it is was a sound idea to make it so short.

I think that disciplied programmers have long ago agreed
that readability is preferable to the utter paranoid
brevity, so that the atoi() function would be better named
as strtoint(), for example.  Code is read much more
frequently than it is modified, and modification itself
requires extensive reading.

AK> Besides, ":=b" looks like a fidonet smiley with the
AK> tongue out of the mouth. :=b

Do not cramp the operator and operands together, use
whitespace, e.g.: a := b;

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