In many programming languages we can choose to use either != or <> to test inequality and both are valid syntax.
Although – assuming they are valid for the language – both ‘mean’ the same thing in programming terms and will have the same effect in the code, conceptually I got to thinking they are different and the one we would choose signifies something about the way we conceive of equality and comparison in the abstract.
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