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Comment by hliyan | Hacker News Reader

I always wondered how programming would be if we hadn't designed the assignment operator to be consistent with mathematics, and instead had it go LHS -> RHS, i.e. you perform the operation and then decide its destination, much like Unix pipes.

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Plenty of LTR languages to choose from, especially concatenative languages like Forth, Joy, or Factor.

The APL family is similarly consistent, except RTL.

TI-BASIC is like this with its store operator →. I always liked it.

    10→A
    A+10→C

It also has an = operator, which saves the whole expression. It re-evaluates it then every time it was used.

Yep, CAS right in the BASIC on the 89 and up is a truly magical experience

For function calls too? List the arguments then the function's name?

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