pling
verbEtymology Imitative.
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To produce a soft bell-like sound.
- The computer plinged to announce the arrival of another email, this time from Isotta.2019, Philip Gwynne Jones, The Venetian Masquerade:
pling
noun/plɪŋ/
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Dated The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
- This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.1989, John Littler, John Maher, Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing:
- 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.1994, C.P. Brown, “HAhAhA”, in comp.sys.acorn.advocacy (Usenet):
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- 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.1994, Stewart Palmer, Mark Moir, Developing CD-ROM products for Acorn machines:
- 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).1996, Tim Wiser, “Pling thing revisited”, in comp.sys.acorn.apps (Usenet):
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