Okay, I just couldn't resist this...
This is old, but still cute enough to amuse me:
A poll conducted among poets had established "waka" as the proper
pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters < and >, though some
poets held out for "norkies."
The text of the poem follows:
<>!*''#
^"`$$-
!*=@$_
%*<>~#4
&[]../
|{,, SYSTEM HALTED
The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit:
Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.
So, I've called < and > "waka" ever since (to the confusion/amusement of all around me) :-)
Russ
Brainbench 'Most Valuable Professional' for Perl
