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gaius
on March 17, 2015
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It's a "sharp", hence why #! is often called a "shebang". Tho' I call ! a "pling".
ThatOtherPerson
on March 17, 2015
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The sharp sign (♯) [1] is actually a different symbol than the number sign (#) [2].
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_%28music%29
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign
mrspeaker
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In Australia (or maybe it was just me?!) we called it "hash" not "sharp"... so #! was "hashbang". The beauty of this system is that #| is "hashpipe", so it _must_ be correct.
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