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		throwaway2245 on Nov 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dev Fonts The != notation has become pretty standard in most common programming languages. What exceptions are there in the top 20 development languages? VBA? But, taking your point, a ligature ≠ would be overloaded in representing != and ~= and /= and <> and becomes potentially very risky.

recursive on Nov 20, 2020 [–]

SQL for one.

julesnp on Nov 20, 2020 | [–]

Also MATLAB: ~= Delphi: <>

And if you go a bit beyond top 20, there's Haskell: /=

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