RE: Bug#132885: ITP: mcs -- C# compiler
I've always been partial to C bletch. I had a professor who used to refer
to "#" as a "bletch mark".
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chad Miller [mailto:cmiller@klecker.debian.org]On Behalf Of Chad
Miller
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:41 PM
To: debian devel; Joseph Carter
Subject: Re: Bug#132885: ITP: mcs -- C# compiler
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:08:09AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> begin Kevin Everets quotation:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:36:01AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > > Why would you want to do anything with a language whose name can only
> > > sanely be read as "C hash"? =)
> >
> > I don't know about that... I always read it as "C pound".
>
> You guys must be just musically illiterate. I always saw it as "C sharp".
That's the way it's read, I think: "C Sharp." It's a stylized octothorpe,
such as would be written by a calligraphist, and is used most on sheet
music.
Giving the designers credit, c-sharp is a pretty clever name.
- chad
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