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		yitchelle on March 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A brief history of one line fixes Side fun question: what was Yoda conditions called before Star Wars was in the cinemas?

icebraining on March 2, 2014 [–]

Maybe it didn't have a name? After all, A New Hope was only released a few years after C, and earlier languages (BCPL, Pascal) used a different expression for assignment (:=), so they didn't suffer from this problem.

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