[Tfug] OT: Hacker Slang

[P. Allen Trevethan, Jr.]

Nice! That's a new one for me. :) Can someone enlighten me to the origins of 
"whack'? This would be the clever term for the backslash, of course. :)

Allen

On Wednesday 03 December 2003 06:15 pm, Terence Rudkin wrote:
> How can you call that star
> or caret, now thats too far
> I know that as splat
> the other as hat
> and don't mess with what they are
>             - The * in the ^

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