I always kind of liked octothorpe, the "official" AT&T name for the # key on your phone... Why use one syllable when three will do?

Steve

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"Doug McIlroy" <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
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Re: [TUHS] Bourne shell and comments

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
"sharp" as the name of # -- not "number", not "pound", and definitely
not "hash" -- so shell scripts began with sharp-bang.

Amen....