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Re: CHAT: Ampersands

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Monday, January 27, 2003, 10:02
Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:

> En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>: > > > > > In the list of silly names used by the INTERCAL programming language > > (INTERCAL obviously stands for "Computer Language With No > > Pronounceable > > Acronym"), such as "spark" for apostrophe and "rabbit ears" for double > > quote, the name "ampersand" is considered sufficiently silly to be > > used > > unchanged. See http://catb.org/~esr/intercal . > > > > This looks extremely fun! Hey, Czhang-style conlanging seems to be also present > among programming language makers ;))))) .
It goes well beyond that! Take a peek at http://www.catseye.mb.ca/ K. -- Ceci n'est pas une .sig.