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Open to sharing a bit about the name? No mention of it in the guide.

• cperciva 7y ago
  "Characters that aren't letters may have longer names. For example the bell character, after which Bel is named, is \bel"
  • jmccarthy 7y ago
    There it is! Thanks.
    • tim333 7y ago
      Ah - brings back memories of the old teletype I first used that had an actual mechanical bell that rang if it got that. Similar to https://trmm.net/Model_ASR33_Teletype https://trmm.net/Model_ASR33_Teletype
• photon-torpedo 7y ago
  My guess would have been a short for BEtter Lisp ;-)
  • Koshkin 7y ago
    I’ll wait for lim.
• gus_massa 7y ago
  Just guessing. His previous language is called arc, it has three letters and starts with an \a.
  • Koshkin 7y ago
    I am not convinced - ‘\a’ had already been taken by C.