== vs =

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <687 at l.cc.purdue.edu> cik at l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>Telling me that what I want to do in part of my code can be done in
>FORTRAN, another part in PASCAL, another part in ..., where each part
>is a small number of lines, is stupid.

I suppose it would be -- who is telling you to do that?

>Do not restrict the programmer!

C's use of = for assignment and == for comparison does not restrict
the programmer.