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James H. H. Lampert wrote:
Incidentally, according to some authorities I've heard (but pointedly
NOT in Wikipedia), the "My Dear Aunt Sally" rule for operator precedence

was not considered universal in mathematics until *after* it was
considered nearly universal across programming languages.

Really? The earliest HLL's were just appearing in the late 50's, early
60's. COBOL in 1959. I was under the impression that algebraic notation
predated that by a significant margin.

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