James Harris wrote:
> On 21 Oct, 22:43, 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?
>
> You've had a lot of answers already - good and amusing by parts - but
> I don't think you've had all of these yet: (You'll note a higher
> degree of pedantry here than in the other answers but you did say
> people were reading these out in class so I assume we are talking to C
> learners and I think the pedantry is apt)
>
>> 1. '\0'
>
> blip, backslash zero, blip
>
>> 2. '\n', '\a', '\b', '\f', etc.
>
> blip, backslash, blip etc
>
> (Once a person is used to the idea that apostrophes are needed for
> these the words, "blip," would no longer be needed.
>
>> 3. NULL, nul (how to distinguish these two?)
>
> Don't call a variable 'nul' and if you do spell it each time.
>
>> 4. char (3 possible ways I've heard are 4a) like the 1st syllable in
>> "character", 4b) like "char coal", and 4c) like "car"
>
> The one I've heard most often is 4b: char as in coal
>
>> 5. Motif (like "motive" or more like the French word?)
>
> no idea how this relates to C!
>
>> 6. x = y, x == y (how to distinguish these two?)
>
> (I suspect the hacks will dislike this)
> x equal(s) y, x equal(s) equal(s) y
>
>> 7. ++x, x++, x += n
>
> plus plus x, x plus plus, x plus equal n
>
>> 8. argc, argv
>
> arg C, arg V
>
> You'll have to tell us which ones you would use ...........
>
>
Victor Borge could explain this. RIP.

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