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		thedob on June 12, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers I present to you, the best of the best... $ - Big Money % - Double-O-Seven & - Pretzel {} - Left Squirrely, Right Squirrely ; - Weenie # - Pigpen Anybody work in a startup using solely the above vocabulary? Power to you.

jcl on June 12, 2008 [–]

The INTERCAL manual had some of the best. I was surprised to see that -- according to the Jargon file ASCII entry -- several of the INTERCAL pronunciations have slipped into what ESR considers common use, e.g. "mesh" and "splat".

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