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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Where did /= come from?
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"Matthew Baulch" <matt@greenroom.com.au> writes:

> I'm not advocating C when I say this, but != makes far more sense than /=
> lexically speaking. ...

And hundreds of years of mathematicians got it all wrong?
Lucky K&R came along to set them straight!  ;-)

- Bob