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[Skip Montanaro]

    Dennis>  Though I feel comfortable with 

    Dennis>       x <> y

I suspect anyone who's written significant amounts of Pascal will find it
comfortable (though I imagine that population is dwindling as CS departments
struggle to make their programs more "relevant" and bow to the gods from
Redmond).  '!=' makes more mnemonic sense if you're a C programmer, despite
being slightly harder to type.  '<>' sort of suggests 'less than or greater
than'.  Maybe it should be written as '<|>'.

I-think-we-need-a-<wink>-operator-ly, y'rs,

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