| From: | Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 19:35 |
John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:> 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 .I've always wanted 'Yogic Flyer' to be an alternative name for the ampersand, but that'd kind of kill the joke, really... K. -- Ceci n'est pas une .sig.