A little-known piece of computer language slang.
by Will
“Bang” means “exclamation point.” I think this is little-known, anyway. Certainly among non-programmers it’s little-known. So when reading code out loud, if someone says “type if bang dollar sign a open brace” they want you to type:
if !$a {
Cool. Relative to this world, rather.
Comments
Nerd.
that’s the only “banging” computer nerds do
hey-oh!
Briefly, I was in an improv group called Bang!Howdy.
At work, a password we use for new people (who then can change their password after knowing it) contains “!”s. Amongst the IT dept., we say “bang”. When I tell everyone else (not in IT) what it is… I say “exclamation point”.
-Terry
Huh. I didn’t know that.
I like to think that in the Young Jeezy song “Bang,” when he instructs us to “throw your hoods up, bang motherfuckers bang, East Side, bang motherfuckers bang, West Side, bang motherfuckers bang,” he is giving all the crack dealers of Atlanta intricate programming instructions.
Perhaps it is an algorithm to determine which member of your crew is most likely to go snitchin’ to the five-oh.