Today in our newest take on “older technology is better”: why NAT rules!

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
    19·
    8 days ago

    What languages use this? I don’t like it!

    On the other hand it goes well with >= and <=. If >= means “either > or =” then <> means “either < or >”, it checks out.

    But I still don’t like it.

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      92·
      8 days ago

      SQL uses it but yeah, not programming language :p.

      I was on mobile so I didn’t have a .XCompose available to type ≠.

      • lemming@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        8 days ago

        If you want to be able to write practically anything on mobile, including ≠, ≈, ‰, ℝ etc., have a look at Unexpected keyboard. No spellcheck or autocomplete, though.

      • lud@lemm.ee
        3·
        8 days ago

        I was on mobile so I didn’t have a .XCompose available to type.

        I feel the opposite. On mobile I have much easier access to special characters. I just need to hold down characters to get more variants.

      • dan@upvote.au
        2·
        7 days ago

        SQL is definitely a programming language. Most dialects are Turing-complete in some way. Some allow custom functions and stored procedures.

      • dan@upvote.au
        1·
        7 days ago

        Depends on the dialect. I mostly use Presto and MySQL at work, and both allow !=.

        Presto also lets you use NOT for booleans - instead of WHERE foo = false, you can do WHERE NOT foo.

    • azalty@jlai.lu
      3·
      8 days ago

      Damn I never understood it but now it makes sense thanks to you

      Yea it’s ugly 😭

    • skulbuny@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      F# definitely and maybe Haskell and OCaml as well? Elixir and Erlang use it as a binary concatenation operator.

      • Phoenix3875@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 days ago

        Yes for OCaml. Haskell’s inequality is defined as /= (for ≠). <> is usually the Monoid mappend operator (i.e. generalized binary concatenation).