On Oct 21, 6:43 pm, Franz Hose <franz_hose_199...@yahoo.dk> 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?
>
> 1. '\0'

"escape zero" aka "backslash zero" aka "null character" aka "end of
string"

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

"escape enn", "escape aey", "escape bee", etc
aka
"newline", "alert", "backspace", "formfeed", etc

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

"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"

It depends. Mostly
"char" but sometimes "character"

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

Not a C term, but "Moe teef"


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

"x takes the value of y" vs "x is equal to y"

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

"plusplus x", "x plusplus", "x plusassign n"
or
"preincrement x", "postincrement x", "x increment by n"


> 8. argc, argv

"arg see", "arg vee"

> thanks