From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer)
Date: 1996/10/17
Date: 1996-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DzEDyu.J36@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.845471035@merv
In article <dewar.845471035@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>Well I must say that at first it seemed quite credible that this was indeed
>an old term, but the failure of anyone to come up with other than the most
>dubious scraps of anecdotal evidence is puzzling ...
Computer science *rarely* involves anything more than anecdotal
evidence; we're used to that. ;-) FWIW, I remember one of my
gradeschool teachers talking about pound signs, and I'm sure she had no
computer-related background. My piano teacher called it a sharp sign.
Sorry, no written references...
- Bob
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-15 0:00 the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Andrew Lynch
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-27 0:00 ` @@ robin
1996-10-28 0:00 ` 1941 and still looking... (was Re: the term "pound sign") Robert I. Eachus
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1996-10-17 0:00 the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 John Walker
1996-10-02 0:00 help: character to integer Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-02 0:00 ` George Haddad
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-07 0:00 ` the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) Adam Beneschan
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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