I had a random thought the other day regarding the characters on the keyboard that us developers use every day. I realized that we probably have very different names and expectations of what each of them are used for, or even call them.
So I did a quick survey of some non-developer friends and family and here's what I came up with:
Character | Me | Other | Others I've heard |
---|---|---|---|
~ | Tilde | Tildee, Approximately | Squiggle |
! | Exclamation | Make a Point | Not, Bang |
@ | At | Kill | |
# | Pound | Number, Hashtag | |
$ | Dollar | Money, "String" in Excel | |
% | Percent | Mod, Modulus | |
^ | Carrot | Accent | |
& | Ampersand | And | |
* | Asterisk | Star, "Times" in Excel | Splat |
( | Open Paren | Left Paren, Quotation Mark | |
) | Close Paren | Right Paren, Other end of Question Mark | |
_ | Underscore | Underline | Lodash |
+ | Plus |
I've combined references to "point", "mark" and "sign". They seem to be used interchangeably.
Which did I miss? What do you call these characters, and what do you expect them to do? I'll update the table as you comment
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