Re:The Birthday Paradox – On Jupiter, and Beyond (2012)
by ColinWright on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:48AM
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From Wikipedia[0]:
> The name given to "!" by programmers varies according to their background. In the UK the term pling was popular in the earlier days of computing, whilst in the United States, the term shriek was used. It is claimed that these word usages were invented in the US and shriek is from Stanford or MIT; however, shriek for the ! sign is found in the Oxford English Dictionary dating from the 1860s.
From another web site[1]:
> It is also called an exclamation mark or tellingly, in newspaper jargon, a shriek.
> The name given to "!" by programmers varies according to their background. In the UK the term pling was popular in the earlier days of computing, whilst in the United States, the term shriek was used. It is claimed that these word usages were invented in the US and shriek is from Stanford or MIT; however, shriek for the ! sign is found in the Oxford English Dictionary dating from the 1860s.
From another web site[1]:
> It is also called an exclamation mark or tellingly, in newspaper jargon, a shriek.
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References:
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_mark#Computers
[1] https://www.thoughtco.com/multiple-exclamation-points-169141...