On Tue, 14 May 2013 19:01:38 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On 14 May 2013 05:09:48 GMT, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> declaimed the following in > gmane.comp.python.general:
>> The <> operator comes from Pascal, where it was used as "not equal" >> since > > I thought it came from BASIC... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC Ah, well apparently BASIC used it earlier, but I don't know whether it was an influence on Pascal (except as "what not to do"). -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
