Is there a technical reason to use > (<) instead of != when incrementing by 1 in a 'for' loop?

Question

I almost never see a for loop like this:

for (int i = 0; 5 != i; ++i)
{}

Is there a technical reason to use >

Answer 1

And last but not least, this is called defensive programming, meaning to always take the strongest case to avoid current and future errors influencing the program.

The only case where defensive programming is not needed is where states have been proven by pre- and post-conditions (but then, proving this is the most defensive of all programming).