From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,3b9cb18e1220c16c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-06 08:51:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Where did /= come from? Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:50:25 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3DC93F8B.9E28FD15@mmm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1036601425 954 129.241.83.78 (6 Nov 2002 16:50:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:50:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30467 Date: 2002-11-06T16:50:25+00:00 List-Id: Programmer Dude wrote: > I'm learning Ada (installed GNAT and AdaGIDE last week, wrote Hello, World). > > I was somewhat bemused to stumble on Ada's version of "not equals": /= > > I'm curious about its derivation or the reason behind the lexography. > (Perhaps a desire to use common keyboard characters?) I don't know if it is the real reason, but the mathematical sign for not equal is: =/=. That is a = with a / through it. I find the != symbol in C completely confusing as ! is an exclamation mark so it sounds more like EQUAL than not equal :-) -- Preben Randhol -------------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol �.., chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.� -- Interesting Times, Terry Pratchett