-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Todd Lyons wrote: > Ben Reser wrote on Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:48:34AM -0800 : > >>"sharp" and "bang", meaning the #! sequence that tells the system where >>to find the interpreter. > > > 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). >
Sorry, but I think pound is a bad choice, seeing as some keyboards have this funny L-shaped character where you americans put this funny S with a vertical line through it ... that would be a Pound sign. Hash is less ambigous. Which is why I would refer to #! as "hash-bang" ;-). Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+bvXErJK6UGDSBKcRAkzCAJ9QchDeAQhRI804OibiTnH/9Pm2IwCggFnb cTKFhMVhpDhARTCQP3p/GxY= =DzQK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
