Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!tkou02.enet.dec.com!jit533!diamond From: diamond@jit533.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Name that character! Message-ID: <1991May31.021409.2717@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Date: 31 May 91 02:14:09 GMT References: <10599@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991May30.144337.29285@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu> Sender: usenet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (USENET News System) Reply-To: diamond@jit533.enet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Distribution: comp Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo Lines: 11 In article zweig.PARC@Xerox.com writes: >I seem to have picked up the habit of calling the ' character "tick" from my >Ada days. It's easy to say, but almost universally not understood outside the >Ada hacker community. I thought it was from Fortran direct-access I/O, and universally not understood outside the Fortran hacker (or ex-Fortran hacker) community. -- Norman Diamond diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it. Permission is granted to feel this signature, but not to look at it.