A last tribute to the Tilde

Question

Dearly Beloved,

this has been a very sad week for all of us. Our good friend ~quack has lost what clearly was a largely important part of his Trilogy life. After a month-long struggle, he has given in to the inevitable and sent his Tilde to finally rest in peace.

Having our friend experience this tragedy would be sad enough, but the loss is even greater: With an ASCII code of 126, the Tilde was the last of the printable characters. The implications of it being no more cannot even be imagined yet.

Thus I ask you all to give a dignified salute to it that "is colloquially known as a 'squiggle' by people who do not know its name".

The manner in which you pay the tribute is of your choice: Be it that you create a Haiku telling its story, compose a song giving praise to the many wonderful deeds of the Tilde, use your art skills to design a poster that commemorates the swung dash in all its glory, write a Greasemonkey script to let the Tilde appear amongst us one more time – or whatever way you find to let the world know

~, you will be missed.

Answer 1

Back-tick, its brother.
Its wavy nature; its slide
Squiggling thus, tilde.

Answer 2

Console.Write((char)('T' + 'i' - 'l' + 'd' - 'e' + '.'));

Answer 3

Answer 4

~           ~          ~     ~      ~      ~   ~         ~~~~~~~         ~~~~~~
     ~          ~          ~          ~     ~         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     ~~~~~~
 ~        ~           ~       ~     ~        ~       ~~~~~~    ~~~~~~   ~~~~~~
     ~         ~     ~        ~       ~     ~   ~   ~~~~~~      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
       ~         ~         ~      ~     ~    ~      ~~~~~~         ~~~~~~~

Oh tilde,
Speeding into the night,
I hope we meet again soon.

Answer 5

You shall be missed.

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Answer 6

I have visions of tildes flying around, looking for a new user to possess...

~ http://djtrousdale.com/arts/wp-content/original/2009_08/epuc-tilde.jpg

Answer 7

Goodbye %7e, you were unique

alt text http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/unique.jpg

Answer 8

Oh tilde, oh squiggle,
oh symbolic Not,
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

you who approximate the string
before the knot,
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

oh curious cat's tail
creeping into the cupboard,
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

oh deviant dragon's tail
decamping to the den,
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

you aren't alphanumeric enough
for SOFU.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

see you at $HOME.

~$

Answer 9

~fin

Answer 10

I often use the tilde to express "approximately" or "about", as a replacement for = when I provide WAGs.

As such, I can only offer my congratulations to quack for having fully realized his true nature, rather than only approximating the quackitude he so fittingly displays.

Your old self will be missed, but we look forward you full antics.

~quack

All hail the real quack!

Answer 11

..
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Answer 12

For some reason, when I read Guffa's answer, this popped into my mind.
_{It did get slightly embellished in the telling.}

A C-ode to the dead tilde

#define puts(in,out) (puts)(in*out)
#define qua int
#define remains(ho) ho[]=#ho
int main () {
    unsigned char *r, e, d=~0, remains(tilde);
    qua puts(const unsigned char, const);
    for (e=-~-~-~-~-d; -~~-e; d=d & ~tilde[e]) e=??--e;
    e[tilde+-~0]=e; *(r= tilde) = e = -d;
    return! puts(++r+1, (~e |- d));
}

The code above is actually version 2. Version 1 used putchar, but I don't much like the explicit use of 10 — too unportable.

#define not(char) int
#define remains(ho) *ho=#ho
#define ressucitate(it,is,friday,there) (put##it -~~0)(there)
int main () {
    not(yet) putchar();
    char r=~0, e=~0, d=~0, remains(tilde);
    for (r=5; r; e=e & ~tilde[d]) r=d=??--r;
    return! putchar(ressucitate(char-,-red,tild-,-e)? 10:10);
}

Answer 13

My tribute:

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Answer 14

I would offer up the new name of squiggle quack.

Answer 15

There once was a tilde from quacktown,
Who danced before names like a king's crown.
      Jeff said "Forget it!"
      A forced user edit;
And far from the DB it was blown.
And far from SOFU went that clown!

Answer 16

I'm trying to find the words to the "alt sigma tilde" song (to the tune of Waltzing Matilda) but without success. It would be very appropriate if anyone has a link?