What are you talking about? The symbol “<>” means whatever we decide it means.
Or option-+.
? = (option =) 
Huh. But the proper “does not equal” sign doesn’t render through, I suppose, the Intarweb.
I wonder if ? does.
!unusual -> C;
++familiarity #include EverydaySpeech.h
Well, <> has due to its use in basic, etc, I think come to mean “not equal to”. But I say what he meant was that “The most reasonable interpretation of <>, consistent with other similar compositions, would be ‘Either less than or more than’.”
BTW or LOL aren’t self evident to anyone - people look them up or pick them up from context. != at least is obvious to some people.