In Pascal (at least in the version as intended by Go^H^HWirth),
you are not very likely to make that mistake. Pascal uses
= to compare two values, and
:= for
assignment. So, you'd have to type an extra character
(instead of leaving one off) to make this mistake, but even
if you do:
if a := b
then begin ... end
is a compile time error. Not really a problem. In Perl using
assignment instead of comparison in a condition leads to
a compile time warning. However, in C, the use of assignment
instead of comparison is just find, and only some compilers
will warn, if you turn on the appriate warnings. But when
compiling C, it's much more common (and troublesome) to turn
warnings on than in Perl.
Conclusing, when coding in Perl, and certainly in C, is more
likely to make this mistake than when coding in Pascal.
Abigail