* [TUHS] The dollar symbol
@ 2018-03-31 21:10 Dave Horsfall
2018-03-31 21:16 ` Mike Markowski
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2018-03-31 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
On this day in 1778 businessman Oliver Pollock created the "$" sign, and
now we see it everywhere: shell prompts and variables, macro strings, Perl
variables, system references (SYS$BLAH, SWAP$SYS, etc), etc; where would
we be without it?
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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* [TUHS] The dollar symbol
2018-03-31 21:10 [TUHS] The dollar symbol Dave Horsfall
@ 2018-03-31 21:16 ` Mike Markowski
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From: Mike Markowski @ 2018-03-31 21:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
On 03/31/2018 05:10 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On this day in 1778 businessman Oliver Pollock created the "$" sign, and
> now we see it everywhere: shell prompts and variables, macro strings,
> Perl variables, system references (SYS$BLAH, SWAP$SYS, etc), etc; where
> would we be without it?
A day late and a dollar short.
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