Re: CHAT: Ampersands

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> > 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 ;))))) .
You betcha.  esr, the current implementer (though not the creator) of INTERCAL,
is also responsible for a Tengwar mode that can be used to write Lojban.

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