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

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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      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.

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

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

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          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.

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          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.

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

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          5 months 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.

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

        Yea it’s ugly 😭

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

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