http://blogs.msdn.com/nickhodge/archive/tags/basic/default.aspxTags: basicen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/nickhodge/archive/2008/06/05/i-lol-everytime-i-see-m.aspxThu, 05 Jun 2008 06:46:55 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8574515nhodge1http://blogs.msdn.com/nickhodge/comments/8574515.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/nickhodge/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8574515http://blogs.msdn.com/nickhodge/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=8574515<p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/2338045554_da4daede2a_d.jpg" /> </p> <p>A common internet and twitter shorthand for Microsoft is MS. </p> <p><a href="http://slashdot.org/">Not-so-Microsoft friendly</a> people use “M$”</p> <p>I just have a good laugh. I remember the days when one used the dollar-sign to denote the variable as a string type:</p> <pre class="csharpcode">M$ = <span class="str">&quot;Microsoft&quot;</span></pre> <p><style type="text/css"> .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; } .csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; } .csharpcode .str { color: #006080; } .csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; } .csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; } .csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; } .csharpcode .html { color: #800000; } .csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; } .csharpcode .alt { background-color: #f4f4f4; width: 100%; margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; }</style>or in other words, the variable M is a string of value “Microsoft”</p> <p>Thankfully, most modern languages (even those from Microsoft) no longer use this programming language mnemonic (or what is formally known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_%28computer_programming%29">postfix sigils</a>)</p> <p>I LOL AT UR L4M3 POSTFIX SIGIL</p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8574515" width="1" height="1">twitterlolbasic