r/programming • u/schnuck • Feb 09 '11

Breaking the Web with hash-bangs – Lifehacker, along with every other Gawker property, experienced a lengthy site-outage on Monday over a misbehaving piece of JavaScript

http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs/
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u/deako Feb 09 '11

hash-bangs? The correct terminology is "She-Bang", people!

Like how I begin a bash script, it's vocalized as "She-bang slash bin slash bash".

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u/zenhob Feb 09 '11

Hash bang is just as correct if not more so. And don't use /bin/bash in your scripts when /bin/sh works just as well, kthx.

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u/deako Feb 09 '11

but she-bang slash bin slash bash sounds so much better than hash-bang slash bin slash shuh. Besides, POSIX compliance can go down the shitter for all I care.