Bliss was Re: DEC program listing

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Eric J Korpela wrote:

> On 8/15/05, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
> > Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> >
> > > I fail to see how i = i + 1 is not obvious to only but the most
> > > simple-minded of people :)
> > err
> > i + 1 -> j
>
> And here I though he forgot to put "LET" in front of "i=i+1".  Either
> that or he forgot the colon in i:=i+1;

I guess it's how your mind works.  I never paid attention in math classes,
so to me, "i = i + 1" says "assign variable i the value of itself plus 1
more".

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