[Meph504]

I wonder where the divide of "shebang" vs "hashbang" lands geographically and chronologically, During college and for many years in the early 90s and 2000s in the south it commonly called hashbang, didn't hear shebang until C# became a thing, I know it predates that, just never heard it before then.

[nkozyra]

I believe the dividing moment came with Ricky Martin circa 2000.

Lame joke aside, I only heard "shebang" prior to around that time, then "hashbang" and now I get a mix of it. Google trends indicates "shebang" always dominated.

[xeromal]

It's kind of the same with the # symbol. I call it the pound sign but some people call it hash.

[bjoli]

In my head I translate an old Swedish term: "timber yard" (from Brädgård). Everything to make interacting with other hard I guess. As a kid we also called it staket, which translates to "fence".

[kevinherron]

Interesting, I’ve never even heard it called “hashbang” until you just did.

California, 40yo fwiw

[cheschire]

I was a Unix sysadmin back in the late 90’s in east coast US and we called it a shebang when writing shell or perl scripts

[Meph504]

I always found it interesting as the sharp term including C# was odd because it isn't the sharp symbol, which is ♯. All of them use the # hash character, so calling it sharp always seemed odd to me, though C-Hash also doesn't roll of the tongue admittedly. It is also interesting how hash is correctly used in some places "Hash Tag" but not others.