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Appendix:Variations of "=" Translingual Etymology Introduced by the B programming language, which also used "mul !" for boolean negation,Why was `!` chosen for negation? - Retrocomputing, Stack Exchange, 2021 and inherited by its successor C. Later adopted more widely. Symbol mul symbol != mul programming In some programming languages, an operator that compares two values for inequality, yielding a true result if they differ. mul <> ≠ ~= mul Conjunction mul conjunction mul Internet slang Not the same as; different from. mul ≠ en 2007-06-08 stan Re: FAQ says no attachments - time to change ? comp.lang.c+ https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c++/c/I1YFDlonQac/m/-U9Wt9os5MQJ You seem to be missing the point that you have failed to convince anyone that what you propose IS an improvement. As you already mentioned, change != progress/improvement. USENET has been around awhile now and the accepted rules are pretty much the result of eliminating things thta didn't work well. Related terms mul ≈ References