Re: CHAT: Ampersands

In a message dated 2003:01:23 06.11.10 AM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR
writes:

>En réponse �  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 ;))))) .
    Sacre Yves Klein Bleu! I can't "read" that file on my Mac!!!

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