Pling vs Poling - What's the difference?
pling | poling |
(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 )
The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles.
The operation of dispersing wormcasts over the walks with poles.
One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc.
As nouns the difference between pling and poling
is that pling is (computing|dated) the symbol (an exclamation mark) while poling is the act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles.As a verb poling is
.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).
Usage notes
* Associated with (Acorn Computers).poling
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(-)- the poling of beans
- the poling of a boat