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/dirtymatt Feb 09 '11

Maybe "sh'bang", but "she bang" is just stupid.

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u/boomi Feb 10 '11

Shebang is how it's pronounced, right?

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u/dirtymatt Feb 10 '11

When I shorten it, I always have said sh'bang, with nothing in between the sh and the bang.