David Wheeler wrote:

On Dec 6, 2004, at 7:38 AM, Austin Hastings wrote:

for =<> {...}


I dub the...the fish operator!

:-)

Back before there was a WWW, I used an editor called "tgif". It was written in france, and part of the idiom was to have two GUI buttons showing respectively the head (" <* ") and tail (" >( ") parts of a fish. This were graphical images, please forgive my poor ascii drawing.


It took me a while to figure it out, but it was a cute bit of bilingualism. (Or perhaps it was a bit of bilingual cute-ism...)

=Austin

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