On 03/31/2018 05:10 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On this day in 1778 businessman Oliver Pollock created the "$" sign, and > now we see it everywhere: shell prompts and variables, macro strings, > Perl variables, system references (SYS$BLAH, SWAP$SYS, etc), etc; where > would we be without it? A day late and a dollar short.