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Re:Dev Fonts by kps on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:48AM (#25160906)
It's C notation. Other languages use other notations like ~= or /= or <>. And any conceptual overloading of ≠ is a tiny fraction of the problem with = (it's too bad ASCII'67 dropped the ASCII'63 ← in favor of _).
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Re:Dev Fonts by throwaway2245 on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:43PM (#25162846)
The != notation has become pretty standard in most common programming languages. What exceptions are there in the top 20 development languages? VBA?

But, taking your point, a ligature ≠ would be overloaded in representing != and ~= and /= and <> and becomes potentially very risky.

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Re:Dev Fonts by recursive on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:01PM (#25163033)
SQL for one.
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Re:Dev Fonts by julesnp on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:46PM (#25164748)
Also MATLAB: ~= Delphi: <>

And if you go a bit beyond top 20, there's Haskell: /=

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