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

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
      17·
      11 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.

        • dan@upvote.au
          1·
          10 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.

      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
        92·
        11 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·
          11 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·
          11 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·
          10 days ago

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

      • azalty@jlai.lu
        3·
        11 days ago

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

        Yea it’s ugly 😭

      • skulbuny@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        11 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·
          10 days ago

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