In imperative languages, assignment has a side effect of making the LHS equal to the RHS. But it's still different from equality, since variables can be reassig

In imperative languages, assignment has a side effect of making the LHS equal to the RHS. But it's still different from equality, since variables can be reassigned E.g. a = 2 a = 3 2 = 3 //what??? Assignment is fundamentally part of the language execution model, which is entirely apart from anything related to mathematical equality. Even in languages where you can't rebind a variable name, it's still weird to use = as assignment, since it would have such different behavior than seemingly analogous operators like > and <.