https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_58 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_58 ALGOL, the := in programming languages used for assignment comes from IAL which b

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_58 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_58 ALGOL, the := in programming languages used for assignment comes from IAL which became ALGOL 58. It's definitely not a modern development. Go reintroduced it to popular mainstream languages, sort of. Except they still use = for assignment and := is used when it's also declaring a new variable.