> it overthrows a century old tradition to let “=” denote a comparison for equality It also, in science and engineering, denotes a method for obtaining lhs whe

> it overthrows a century old tradition to let “=” denote a comparison for equality It also, in science and engineering, denotes a method for obtaining lhs when you have values for the terms on rhs. That is the point of converting y = ax² + bx + c to x = (-b ± √(b² − 4ac)) / 2a. Early languages like Fortran explicitly followed that usage.