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From: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: question about names for symbols
Message-ID: <7333@watdaisy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 02:22:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 02:22:16 1985
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Reply-To: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins)
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In article <2041@iddic.UUCP> rick@iddic.UUCP (Rick Coates) writes:
>What names are in use for the non-alpha characters in the ASCII code?

	Good question! Surprisingly, no one i know has a reference for
this (can anyone from Bureau of Standards help out?). My names
for these symbols depend on occasion (programming in Pascal vs C
or the shell or in conversation or on the phone or while reading)
and (apparently) on where i first saw them used (or pronounced).
I remember seeing a poem in OMNI a while ago (yes, i read OMNI)
which used the symbol "#"; it was in the form of a puzzle where
you had to get all the names (there were 8) for this symbol.
	My personal names are:
	! - "bang"/"exclam"/"exclamation point"
	~ - "tilde"/"twiddle"
	` - "back quote"
	' - "single quote"
	" - "double quote"
	\ - "back slash"
	| - "pipe"
	# - "hash"/"number"/"pound"
	@ - "at"
 	^ - "up arrow"/"caret"/"pointer"
	& - "and"/"ampersand"
	* - "star"/"asterisk"/"times"
	< - "less than"/"pointy brackets"
	{ - "curly brackets"/"braces"
	[ - "hard brackets"
	( - "brackets"
-- 
Gregory J.E. Rawlins, Department of Computer Science, U. Waterloo
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