Exclamation mark
<character> The character "!" with
ASCII code 33.
Common names:
bang; pling; excl (/eks'kl/); shriek;
ITU-T: exclamation mark, exclamation point (US).
Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka; soldier;
INTERCAL: spark-spot.
The
Commonwealth Hackish, "pling", is common among
Acorn Archimedes owners.
Bang is more common in the USA.
The occasional
CMU usage, "shriek", is also used by
APL fans and mathematicians, especially
category theorists.
Exclamation mark is used in
C and elsewhere as the logical negation operation (
NOT).
