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Subject: Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ]
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 22:20:10 -0400
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On 15 May 2013 00:15:53 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> On Tue, 14 May 2013 19:01:38 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 
> > On 14 May 2013 05:09:48 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
> > <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following in
> > gmane.comp.python.general:
> 
> >> The <> operator comes from Pascal, where it was used as "not equal"
> >> since
> > 
> > 	I thought it came from BASIC...
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC
> 
> 
> Ah, well apparently BASIC used it earlier, but I don't know whether it 
> was an influence on Pascal (except as "what not to do").

	Algol was the biggest influence on Pascal, to my understanding --
but by the days of Pascal I suspect ASCII was the prime character set --
so no (ASCII art to ensure it gets through) |---  or =/= characters (I
believe ALGOL 60 used =/= [as a single glyph] for "not equal").

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