My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

Re:My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red by bartread on Friday December 20, 2024 @04:46AM (#42469575)

Yeah, it’s an interesting one. I’ve always known it as the hash symbol from back in the 80s when I got my first microcomputer. This was in the UK but I don’t think hash is UK-specific terminology: “shebang” (“hash bang” for #!) has been common parlance amongst the UNIX-crowd since I don’t know when.

I know pound is incredibly common in the US, but in the UK it’s never referred to that way because here pound means £.

“Octothorpe” is entirely new to me though, and I guess is quite context specific?

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Re:My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red by a57721 on Friday December 20, 2024 @05:16AM (#42469763)

> “shebang” (“hash bang” for #!)

I think the etymology of "shebang" isn't clear, some sources say it may come from "sharp bang" or "shell bang".

http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/shebang.html

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Re:My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red by dcminter on Friday December 20, 2024 @05:11AM (#42469737)

Yeah, I don't think I even heard "pound" for # until I went online and started getting exposed a lot more to US stuff (also harking from the 80s UK micro world).

I feel like "octothorpe" might have been referenced in the jargon file or similar texts?

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Re:My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red by dcminter on Friday December 20, 2024 @05:36AM (#42469896)

I checked, and it gets a passing mention (along with a snipe about annoying Britons!) in Jargon File and Hackers Dictionary.

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