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		franga2000 on Nov 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dev Fonts Considering Excel's offical way of writing a != b is a<>b, I think these kinds of hacks there can be excused :)

uncanneyvalley on Nov 21, 2020 [–]

a<>b is the preferred syntax in SQL. I'm pretty sure a!=b works everywhere these days, but that hasn't always been the case.

(eta: didn't finish the thought - I'd assume SQL influenced Excel, since it's older.)

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