how to pronounce '*'

Thomas Lapp thomas at mvac23.UUCP
Wed Nov 15 11:01:37 AEST 1989


Although I first heard it from 'BMers (beemers aka IBMers), some people
like to use the work 'bug' to discribe it.  But I grew up with 'star'
so that's what I like.  Besides, who wants to hear, "All lines which
are comments need to have a bug in column 1".  Bleche.
                         - tom
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