21 Apr
2017
21 Apr
'17
8:07 a.m.
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Bakul Shah wrote:
From the horse’s mouth (as per
https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/documents/dennis-ritchie-and-hash-bang.s… ):
From: "Ritchie, Dennis M (Dennis)** CTR **" <dmr(a)research.bell-labs.com>
To: <erlĸonigⓐtαlismαn.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:37:37 -0600
Subject: RE: What do -you- call your #!<something> line?
I can't recall that we ever gave it a proper name.
It was pretty late that it went in--I think that I
got the idea from someone at one of the UCB conferences
on Berkeley Unix; I may have been one of the first to
actually install it, but it was an idea that I got
from elsewhere.
As for the name: probably something descriptive like
"hash-bang" though this has a specifically British flavor, but
in any event I don't recall particularly using a pet name
for the construction.
Regards,
Dennis
[Sorry about the html]
In the process of replying, I've de-htmlized it. ;)
Anyway, I use "pound-bang" which is basically the same thing, although I
must say it has a particular violent quality about it...
-uso.