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Re: CHAT: Ampersands

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, January 23, 2003, 14:10
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 ;))))) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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