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From: scj@yaccman.com (Steve Johnson)
Subject: [TUHS] Bourne shell and comments
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:13:30 -0700	[thread overview]
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I always kind of liked octothorpe,  the "official" AT&T name for the
# key on your phone...   Why use one syllable when three will do?

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From:
 "Clem Cole" <clemc at ccc.com>

To:
"Doug McIlroy" <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu>
Cc:
"TUHS main list" <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent:
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:15:08 -0400
Subject:
Re: [TUHS] Bourne shell and comments

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu
[1]>
 wrote:

"sharp" as the name of # -- not "number", not "pound", and definitely
 not "hash" -- so shell scripts began with sharp-bang.

​Amen....​

 

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-21 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-21 17:03 Doug McIlroy
2017-04-21 18:15 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-21 19:13   ` Steve Johnson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-04-19 19:18 Doug McIlroy
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
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

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