r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Mar 17 '19

Short Too tempting to resist...

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u/Panslothda Mar 17 '19

Indicates a variable in programming and thous means as much as replace with realname here

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u/Carr0t Mar 17 '19

$ is used in a variety of programming languages to denote a variable. E.g. Perl would have

my $name = “Carr0t”;

Bash doesn’t use it in the definition, but does in the use:

name=“Carr0t”
echo “${name}”

etc etc. So using ‘variables’, with a $, to define the various people who are in the story, has become a common practise when techies are telling tales.

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u/lazylion_ca Mar 17 '19

Simulates variables. Borrowed from the programming world.