Simula 67 had separate value and reference assignment operators

Simula 67 had two notations for assignment, namely, := for value assignment of basic types and :- for reference assignment of user-defined types.

Source: http://blog.greaterthanzero.com/post/58482859780/c-and-the-culture-of-complexity

added 2013-08-24T00:20:07Z by anders

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