Re: Where did /= come from?

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

Matthew Baulch wrote:
> 
> I'm not advocating C when I say this, but != makes far more sense than /=
> lexically speaking. In C, the Negative of a bool is retrieved with !foo.
> In Ada, not foo. So I believe that K&R got it right using the != operator
> for 'not equal'. Ada on the other hand doesn't use the ! operator and "not
> equal" is too clumsy so it could be far worse than '/='.

Well you can argue that they got it wrong when they chose ! in stead of
not and = instead of := and == in stead of = ;-)

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