Timeline for What is ¬ called and what is it for?
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| Jun 30, 2018 at 22:39 | comment | added | Chad von Nau | AppleScript uses ¬ as the line-continuation symbol, to split long commands into multiple lines, like \ in bash script. | |
| May 9, 2018 at 10:40 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| May 9, 2018 at 14:47 | |||||
| Jul 6, 2017 at 10:53 | comment | added | Kickstart | PL/1 (developed in the late 1960s) used the ¬ symbol for not. Having used PL/1 for many years I still think of this as the not symbol | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 13:33 | comment | added | mrb | REXX uses ¬ for logical not and in operators like ¬=, ¬>, etc. Most implementation also allow `\` because many keyboards lack a ¬ key. I'm not sure that it can be considered a mainstream language, though. | |
| Apr 16, 2016 at 8:18 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| Apr 16, 2016 at 8:49 | |||||
| Jan 26, 2016 at 19:42 | comment | added | Brandin | Why is negation symbol not an "actual name"? After all, we call ! exclamation point and ? question mark. And those are perfectly fine names. | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 14:27 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| Jan 26, 2016 at 15:30 | |||||
| Jul 20, 2015 at 19:55 | vote | accept | BanksySan | ||
| Jul 19, 2015 at 19:17 | comment | added | Basile Starynkevitch | Some programming languages accept UTF8 characters as names or user-defined operators. | |
| Jul 19, 2015 at 18:48 | history | answered | Ixrec | CC BY-SA 3.0 |