Heh, I just read an explanation of this the other day: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/equals-as-assignment/ https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/equals-as-assign

Heh, I just read an explanation of this the other day: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/equals-as-assignment/ https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/equals-as-assignment/ The summary is that C used it because assignment was a lot more common than equality checking, and back then, typing fewer characters was a big deal.