Pling vs Ling - What's the difference?
pling | ling |
(computing, dated) The symbol (an exclamation mark).
* 1989 , "John Littler, John Maher", Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing
* 1994 , "C.P. Brown", HAhAhA'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn.advocacy )
* 1994 , Stewart Palmer, Mark Moir, Developing CD-ROM products for Acorn machines
* 1996 , "Tim Wiser", Pling thing revisited'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn.apps )
Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva , resembling the cod.
Short for common ling, Molva molva .
Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
As a noun pling
is (computing|dated) the symbol (an exclamation mark).pling
English
Noun
(en noun)- This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.
- IMO, prefixing a directory name with a pling so that a program within it is run when you double click on it is a rather untidy way to do things.
- Make sure that you consider ISO 9660 restrictions on the use of characters in disc, directory and file names. Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal characters.
- Acorn Computing used to be big offenders when it came to referring to applications by their pling -inclusive names. They loved it. Unfortunately it made their articles sound silly (for want of a better adjective).