RE: Charlie and COMMON

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You need to watch Victor Borge do his routine of 'audible 
punctuation.'  An exclamation point is... well, there's no good way 
to type it!

--Paul E Musselman

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At 3:53 PM +0000 5/16/22, Alan Shore via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
> I had heard of asterisk being called "splat" and "twinkle" and the 
> exclamation point being called "bang" as well as "shriek"
>
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> From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Vern Hamberg via MIDRANGE-L
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2022 11:49 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Charlie and COMMON
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> Splat has been in use a long time, so far as I can tell. A sentence 
> in the "asterisk" wiki page says, "In Commodore (and related) 
> filesystems, an asterisk appearing next to a filename in a directory 
> listing denotes an improperly closed file, commonly called a "splat 
> file"." This goes back to 1977, at least. I believe I heard that the 
> name comes from the sound (and how it looks) when a bug smashes into 
> the inside of the monitor screen. Exclamation points are "bang", so 
> shell scripts in bash start with hash-band - #! - TMI coming - check 
> this out for fun! 
> https://ss64.com/bash/syntax-pronounce.html<https://ss64.com/bash/syntax-pronounce.html>
>
> Cheers
> Vern
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Oberholtzer" 
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> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2022 8:54:26 AM
> Subject: Re: Charlie and COMMON
>
> I've used that "splat" for so many years I cannot remember. Until now I
> was completely unaware of its origin. Nice to know.
>
> Charlie had just left the COMMON board when I first joined it. It was a
> pleasure watching him lend his managerial and people skills when
> contentious items of discussion came up, and at that time there were
> several. Charlie's technical prowess aside, he was a great man.
>
> --
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Chief Technical Architect
> Agile Technology Architects
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>
> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 8:04 AM Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis <
> midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> >  I too learned 'SPLAT' from Charlie. At one point in 1988 we hired a
> >  developer from India who had no middle name. We used everyone's initials
> >  for changes in programs and required 3 initials to keep things neat and
> >  in line. So hers became G*P which as you can imagine was pronounced 'Gee
>  > Splat Pee' :-) She is known by that even today over 30 years later.
> >