I'm all for it, but what kicked it off?

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[–] 28 points 9 months ago (22 children)

Wait, how is "not equal to" a Nazi symbol?

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (20 children)

    It is a symbol used to intend that races are not equal.

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  • [+] -25 points 9 months ago (18 children)

    Fun fact: that's why most computer programming languages use "!=" instead of "≠"

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  • [–] 45 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    I thought it had more to do with the fact that there isn't a ≠ key on most people's keyboards.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    My editor's font/ligeratue changes the != To that symbol when programming. Unfortunately I have to use visual basic usually and type out Not most of the tiime but works well with C#.

    Probably not a big increase in readability but I like it. Damn hate all the words needed in VB.net but oh well, could not be programming for work which would be worse and least still know .net libraries.

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  • [–] -5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Well, that's because they removed it after WW2. The original IBM keyboard had this, and other Nazi symbolism. (IBM collaborated with the Nazis, if you weren't aware)

    Another fun fact: the Windows logo today is where the swastika used to be. If you look closely, you can see how the swastika's influence on Microsoft's iconic logo persists to this very day

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You're just improvising bullshit now...

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago

    No it's because you can't type the not equal symbol very easily. If you type it it won't work because most compilers aren't expecting it.

    But you know your fact is nicer than the boring reality

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  • [+] -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    This is not one thing you learned today come on dude just think about it for two seconds. Could there possibly by another, much more likely reason that a programming language wouldn't use ≠? Here's a hint- if you're at a computer, look down at your keyboard.

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  • [+] -6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    What's your point? =/= Isn't the "not equals to" term, it's !=

    Just as ≥ isn't available, so you have >= and ≈ is not on the keyboard, so we have ==

    Formal logical operators require the you to press the alt key and enter a numerical sequence on the keypad. If I had to type the logical operators with alt codes it would slow me down.

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