[Tfug] OT: Hacker Slang

Jeremy D. Rogers jdrogers at optics.arizona.edu
Wed Dec 3 21:18:48 MST 2003


> Nice! That's a new one for me. :) Can someone enlighten me to the origins of 
> "whack'? This would be the clever term for the backslash, of course. :)

Most of these are in the jargon file:
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/

As far as I can tell, Whack is only listed under ascii:
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html

JDR


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