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Re:Unix didn't use to support '#!', a brief history by c3534l on Saturday July 16, 2022 @07:25AM (#32117015)
Doubt it. Hash was a pretty uncommon name for # until Twitter introduced hashtags.
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Re:Unix didn't use to support '#!', a brief history by robin_reala on Saturday July 16, 2022 @08:09AM (#32117261)
In en-US, sure. But it was basically the only usage in en-GB, due to £.
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Re:Unix didn't use to support '#!', a brief history by IncRnd on Saturday July 16, 2022 @08:28AM (#32117375)
Not really. Many people called # the crosshatch, hatch mark, or hash mark. Twitter was late to the game.
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