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Microsoft naming its computing language C#
C++? (Which really should be ++C but that's a whole nother rant.)
And, regarding "hash"; back in the heady days of computing in the '70s, when no one would ever need more than 4K, we called it "hatch"
# hatch
* splat
! bang
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