Franz Hose wrote:

> last week in class I witnessed somebody reading a C program to
> another person and they were having some difficulties because of
> different pronunciation of some C language terms...so how do
> professional programmers pronounce these things?

Frankly code is not read aloud very often.

> 1. '\0'

null char

> 2. '\n', '\a', '\b', '\f', etc.

newline, bell, backspace, form feed.

> 3. NULL, nul (how to distinguish these two?)

null pointer constant, ASCII null.

> 4. char (3 possible ways I've heard are 4a) like the 1st syllable in
> "character", 4b) like "char coal", and 4c) like "car"

I'll pick 4a

> 5. Motif (like "motive" or more like the French word?)

As the dictionary pronounces it.

> 6. x = y, x == y (how to distinguish these two?)

y is assigned to x, x is equal to y.

> 7. ++x, x++, x += n

preincrement x, postincrement x, x plus equals n.

> 8. argc, argv

Aey-Aar-Gee-Cee, Aey-Aar-Gee-Vee.

> thanks

Your welcome.