Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:58:25 GMT, Andrew Virnuls <vir...@argonet.co.uk> wrote: > >I think the names depend on the application. Computer scientists refer to >the exclamation mark as a "pling". I work on computers and we never used that term. We used bang. It was the prompt given by the operating system (where Unix uses $ or #). > >The # sign, for example, is a "sharp" to a musician, a "hash" to a computer >programmer, and a "gate" to a telephone engineer. > >-- >A N D R E W vir...@argonet.co.uk Honey traps more flies than vinegar >http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/virnuls Fine words butter no parsnips > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 113841,2e58d5f13e65ed35 X-Google-Attributes: gid113841,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,d8ba9ee032dffd44 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 102ffd,2e58d5f13e65ed35 X-Google-Attributes: gid102ffd,public From: cma...@dhc.net (Chuck Maurer) Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols Date: 1998/01/12 Message-ID: <34b...@news.dhc.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 315072568 References: <34A...@ares.informatik.uni-ulm.de> <01bd187e$68352060$LocalHost@atkins> <696gls$p0...@clarknet.clark.net> <O6w...@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net> <jdo...@aus-tx22-24.ix.netcom.com> <na....@argonet.co.uk> Organization: CyberNews Network Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage
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