The Origin of VirguleStar.com
I’m drafting off the idea of expanding geeky punctuation into words (popularized by www.SlashDot.org)
(Funny story behind his originating motivation)
so SlashDot equals /.
Based on that, being a comment happy developer, I thought an expansion of /* would be particularly apropos as that’s the well known opening comment syntax in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, T-SQL, etc.
Of course, SlashStar.com and readily desirable derivates were already taken :( … however, browsing for slash synonyms turned up "virgule", specifically for the forward slash character, nice!... yeah ok, it doesn't role off the tongue but its obscurity meant I had an available domain name hit and that’s obviously key! :)
And thus www.VirguleStar.com was born.
(Funny story behind his originating motivation)
so SlashDot equals /.
Based on that, being a comment happy developer, I thought an expansion of /* would be particularly apropos as that’s the well known opening comment syntax in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, T-SQL, etc.
Of course, SlashStar.com and readily desirable derivates were already taken :( … however, browsing for slash synonyms turned up "virgule", specifically for the forward slash character, nice!... yeah ok, it doesn't role off the tongue but its obscurity meant I had an available domain name hit and that’s obviously key! :)
And thus www.VirguleStar.com was born.
