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Interesting stuff. Perhaps add an alias hashbang for shebang.

• tgv 3y ago
  No true hacker will say hashbang.
  • dylan604 3y ago
    here here. "hashbang that script will ya?" is something no self respecting hacker would ever say.
  • ranting-moth 3y ago
    "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." ‐ Dennis Ritchie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)
  • ralferoo 3y ago
    In the UK ! was (maybe still is) pronounced as "pling". I know I've definitely said hashpling. Actually surprised the American's weren't calling # "pound" then, but maybe that evilness showed up later. But whatever, it's never been a pound symbol in any country that uses pounds! Another interesting fact about # is that in the late 90s or early 2000s, British Telecom tried to gaslight the British public into thinking that # was pronounced "octothorpe". Fortunately, everybody realised this was idiocy, and we all carried on calling it "hash" like we always had.