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• excl: /eks'kl/ n. Abbreviation for `exclamation point'.
  See {bang}, {shriek}, {{ASCII}}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• bang 1. n. Common spoken name for ! (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a bang path in spoken hackish.
  In elder days this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring excl or shriek...
• bang: 1. n. Common spoken name for `!' (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a {bang path} in spoken hackish.
  In {elder days} this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring {excl} or {shriek}...
• ASCII /as'kee/ n. [originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers.
  The standard version uses 7 bits for each character, whereas most earlier codes (including early drafts of of ASCII prior to June 1961) used fewer....
• hriek n. See excl. Occasional CMU usage, also in common use among APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists.
• amper n. Common abbreviation for the name of the ampersand (`&
  ', ASCII 0100110) character. See ASCII for other synonyms....
• amper: n. Common abbreviation for the name of the ampersand (`&', ASCII 0100110) character.
  See {{ASCII}} for other synonyms. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• open n. Abbreviation for `open (or left) parenthesis' -- used when necessary to eliminate oral ambiguity.
  To read aloud the LISP form (DEFUN FOO (X) (PLUS X 1)) one might say...
• open: n. Abbreviation for `open (or left) parenthesis' --- used when necessary to eliminate oral ambiguity.
  To read aloud the LISP form (DEFUN FOO (X) (PLUS X 1)) one might say...