On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 17:44, Levi Ramsey wrote: > On Tue Mar 11 10:43 -0800, Todd Lyons wrote: > > Interestingly, "sharp" only has meaning to anybody who's studied music > > in some small form. Most of the people I've come across like to call it > > "hash" (which irks me) or "pound" (my personal preference). > > I prefer hash, if only because it allows me to say "hash bang slash bin > slash bash", which has always amused me... when I'm writing a shell > script, I always say that part aloud... ;o)
Actually Pound is the term used for the # symbol by the Telco's when they first came up with touch tone dialing... (Ok I remember rotary dial, and yes I'm dating myself.)
