Some concern about !=
Posted on July 25, 2003
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It has been pointed out to me that my post about I, Cringely might have been misunderstood thanks to my usage of != in the title. Specifically that it might be read as “I, Cringely !” and then “= crap”, or “Robert Cringely’s site is crap”.
!= is a common entity used in some programming languages to mean “does not equal”. While modern keyboards have a simple symbol for defining when two values are equal (=) they don’t have one for defining when two values are not equal. As a result computer programmers have had to come up with their own means of defining when this is so. Some common form of “is not equal” that you might also come across in your web travels are: !=, <>, ne, ≠
So when you read that title it really means “I, Cringely does not equal crap” in the elitist language of the internet geek.
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