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From: akosela@andykosela.com (Andy Kosela)
Subject: [TUHS]  Bourne shell and comments
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:22:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALMnNGjEWe8WHsMZ8dw2+RK7SFAoerA04sy47RGzDrx2vEt-Uw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03cc01d2ba8d$a798f4e0$f6cadea0$@ronnatalie.com>

On Friday, April 21, 2017, Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ron at ronnatalie.com');>> wrote:

> Shebang is very old.   Earliest uses are around 1862 according to the
> OED.    It's listed as American Slang of obscure origin.
>

Most of us are probably familiar with the word, but it is more interesting
when and why it was first used in the context of '#!'.  It seems Dennis did
not use that term in the beginning.

--Andy
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-21 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-18 20:48 Warren Toomey
2017-04-18 20:51 ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-18 21:45   ` Grant Taylor
2017-04-18 22:16     ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-18 22:40       ` Toby Thain
2017-04-19 18:36     ` Stephen Kitt
2017-04-19 20:35       ` Arthur Krewat
2017-04-19  0:50   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-04-19  8:35     ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-04-19 16:31     ` Grant Taylor
2017-04-19 16:59       ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-04-19 17:36       ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-19 17:59         ` Grant Taylor
2017-04-20 20:13   ` Clem Cole
2017-04-20 20:17     ` Chet Ramey
2017-04-21  3:28     ` arnold
2017-04-21  3:43       ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-21  6:07         ` Steve Nickolas
2017-04-21 11:18       ` Clem cole
2017-04-21 13:20       ` Michael Kjörling
2017-04-18 20:56 ` Chet Ramey
2017-04-19 21:02 ` Sven Mascheck
2017-04-19 22:07   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-20  0:31     ` shawn wilson
2017-04-20  0:35       ` shawn wilson
2017-04-20  3:50         ` Andy Kosela
2017-04-20  4:47           ` Warner Losh
2017-04-21  1:42             ` Nemo
2017-04-21 10:54               ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-21 14:22                 ` Andy Kosela [this message]
2017-04-21 14:45                   ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-22  2:46           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-20 16:39     ` Sven Mascheck
2017-04-20 21:42       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-19 19:18 Doug McIlroy
2017-04-21 17:03 Doug McIlroy
2017-04-21 18:15 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-21 19:13   ` Steve Johnson

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