> Here's one for the programmers among you. When the guys who design
> languages like PHP and Perl decide they're going to precede all
> variables with a dollar sign, what is the rest of the world supposed to
> do when writing code in these languages? I presume that foreign
> keyboards *don't* have dollar signs above the 4 key the way we do. So
> how do they handle writing code in languages like Perl and PHP?
According to a quick poll, keyboards from other countries actually do
have the $ symbol, although not necessarily above the 4.
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