Was C the first programming language to use the term lvalue, or does it go further back? Note that I'm not talking about the general concept of "something on the left-hand side of an assignment statement" (which it has ceased to mean in C++ a long time ago). You can find that in pretty much any imperative programming language. I am specifically asking about the term lvalue. Where does it come from?
The notion of lvalues and rvalues was introduced by CPL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-value
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(computer_science)#lrvalue
The terms are coined in computer science, the notion of lvalues and rvalues were introduced by CPL More can be found in that article.
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