You'd prefer something like '<=>' to indicate 'logical equality' then?
That's more similar to the actual symbol used. But then that's not so easy to type as '=='.
http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/145316

In programming languages older than Algol (from which Pascal was derived) such as FORTRAN, the single '=' was good enough to designate both variable assignment AND logical equality.

It was your precious Pascal (along with Algol) that muddied the waters.

You'd prefer something like '' to indicate 'logical equality' then?
That's more similar to the actual symbol used. But then that's not so easy to type as '=='.
http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/145316

In programming languages older than Algol (from which Pascal was derived) such as FORTRAN, the single '=' was good enough to designate both variable assignment AND logical equality.

It was your precious Pascal (along with Algol) that muddied the waters.

Shouldn't that be Slashdot *readings* in the early morning is hard? ;)

I recalled incorrectly - 0 degrees was the freezing point of brine.

I knew I never should have trusted anything my seventh grade science teacher taught us.

As I recall, zero degrees Farenheit is the freezing temp of alcohol and 100 degrees Farenheit was originally supposed to be the normal body temp of humans (someone must have had a slight fever when Farenheit was measuring his data.)