[REBOL] Re: footer on Joel's email
From: chalz:earthlink at: 20-Mar-2002 0:03
> From _The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style_ by Robert Bringhurst,
> a standard refererence in the field of typography...
I thought typography was the study of errors during typing. Hmm... ;)
> octothorp Otherwise known a the numeral sign. It
> has also been used as a symbol for the
> pound avoirdupois, but this usage is now archaic.
> In cartography, it is also a symbol for a village:
> eight fields around a central square, and this is
> the source of its name. Octothorp means eight fields.
>
> Of course this also means that REBOL is eight times better
> than c# ("see octothorp") and has it completely surrounded.
And, well, there's always the musical notation, in which # refers to a
'sharp' note, such as C# is C-sharp, or a half-step between C and D (not
looking for debates on whether or not it really /is/ half way in between or
not - it's close enough).
