From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] The dollar symbol
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 07:10:16 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1804010702020.27730@aneurin.horsfall.org> (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?
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next reply other threads:[~2018-03-31 21:10 UTC|newest]
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2018-03-31 21:10 Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-03-31 21:16 ` Mike Markowski
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