Chuck Hast wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:00:22 GMT, Backward Thinker
> <backwardthinker@juno.com> wrote:
>
>>>I octothorped those out
>>
>>octothorpe... had to hit dictionary.com for that one. Learn something new every day.
>>
>>http://www.sigtel.com/tel_tech_octothorpe.html
>>http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oct1.htm
>>
>>And verbing nouns is good times,
>
>
> Yea, I guess it is not the most common word in the world. I just see one and
> that is what I think. Some times the translator to more common words does
> not come on line.
>
Is there a more-common word/term for it (other than "tic-tac-toe
thingie" or "number sign", neither one of which is really a name for
it?) It's not technically a "sharp", which is rendered slightly
differently (if you want to be technically precise). I suppose some
call it a "hash", but that's more of a description than a name for it.
Then again, without some calling it a "hash", one of my all-time
favorite programming terms wouldn't exist: "shebang line".
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