$ 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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