ML (which is the precursor to OCaml/f#), pascal, basic, and sql use <>. If you consider that <, <=, etc are used as comparison operators it makes sense for <>

ML (which is the precursor to OCaml/f#), pascal, basic, and sql use <>. If you consider that <, <=, etc are used as comparison operators it makes sense for <> to be in that camp. I actually never thought of it that way. Interesting table here highlighting old programming languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_operator#Standard_relational_operators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_operator#Standard_r...