Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!sci.kun.nl!cs.kun.nl!hansm From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Name that character! Message-ID: <3610@wn1.sci.kun.nl> Date: 31 May 91 19:33:00 GMT References: <10599@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991May30.144337.29285@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu> <1991May31.021409.2717@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Sender: root@sci.kun.nl Distribution: comp Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Lines: 16 In <1991May31.021409.2717@tkou02.enet.dec.com> diamond@jit533.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond) writes: >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. I thought it was from the Forth address-of operator, and universally not understood outside the Forth hacker (or ex-Forth hacker) community. -- Pax, Hans Mulder hansm@cs.kun.nl