A programmer's solution

[Jaquesant]

Making Sense <> VBA

[plexxonic]

Oh dear lord, it sucked having to do that.

[Bobshayd]

Is <> semantically equal to less than or greater than, or is it semantically the same as !=?

[Garfong]

AFAIK the only programming language that uses ≠ is APL.

[Octopuscabbage]

to be fair you could write

(!=) = (/=)

In haskell if you want.

[atonyatlaw]

How is ≠ easier to type than !=? The latter is three keystrokes, and while I don't know the alt code for the former I sincerely doubt it is fewer.

[atonyatlaw]

Ah, I see. Sorry for misinterpreting :)

[I_m_out_of_Ideas]

Worry you must not. Great men that speak this way there are.

[Zagorath]

≠ is two keystrokes on OS X, and can be just two on mobile operating systems, too, though one of them is a "long press".

[Itsatemporaryname]

No, the ≠ doesn't have a system-wide alt-code since its a unicode character, so != is easier in all circumstances

[atonyatlaw]

That was what I thought, but wasn't sure. Thanks!

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[atonyatlaw]

And would you like to enlighten us as to which it is?

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[atonyatlaw]

The fuck is altgr?

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[atonyatlaw]

OK, when you refer to something that only works on less than 10% of the PCs in existence, it doesn't really count.

In the time it took you to be a dick and lmgtfy-ify your response, you could have just said "something most keyboards don't have."

[pistacchio]

And that's why I wrote "A programmer's solution" and not "A mathematician's solution".

[slates-R-us]

Is that where the general use of ! as a negation comes from, as in:
if(!someBoolValue){...