IMHO, it was a mistake for some languages to make "=" mean assignment. Algol and Pascal got this right and used ":=" to mean assignment. Even the use of "variab

IMHO, it was a mistake for some languages to make "=" mean assignment. Algol and Pascal got this right and used ":=" to mean assignment. Even the use of "variable" is wrong when talking about mutable memory. "Assignable" would be better.