Meaning of pling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
   dated
2. A soft bell-like sound; ding.

Examples

“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).”

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