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the wikipedia page for $ will be real weird for people to look at after we abolish money y'all
*puts on nerd cap* weLL for this story i'm gonna have to explain something called the “American Standard Code for Information Interchange”…
@kibi 2050, dystopian future: PHP moves to prefixing variables with ₿
“why is… why is the variable punctuation sign an S with a line through it”
“well see it used to be a currency sign for something called the ‘dollar’”
“okay so i have two questions:
- why did people use a currency sign as punctuation for indicating variables
- why was the dollar punctuation sign an S with a line through it”