Old Wolf wrote:


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

Is that "mow" as in "bow"?



Brian

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> Old Wolf wrote:
>
>
>> > 5. Motif (like "motive" or more like the French word?)
>>
>> mow teef
>
> Is that "mow" as in "bow"?

Is that "bow" as in "arrow", or "bow" as in "curtsey"?

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In article <47258c02.930234095@news.xs4all.nl>, Richard Bos
<rlb@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl> writes
>Marjancek <marjancek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 25, 8:22 am, Justin Spahr-Summers
>> <Justin.SpahrSumm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Oct 25, 5:41 am, Chris Hills <ch...@phaedsys.org> wrote:
>> > > Hence is it C-pound or C-hash for C# ?
>> >
>> > It's officially "C sharp." Of course, why someone would even use such
>> > a symbol in the name of a language is beyond me.
>>
>> If you pay attention, the '#' symbol can be made of two '+' (with a
>> subtle vertical and horizontal offset).
>
>True, but irrelevant, since (as I'm semi-reliably informed) Sheesh is a
>cheap knock-off of Java, not of C++.
>Richard

What is Sheesh?

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"Richard Bos" <rlb@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> Marjancek <marjancek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 25, 8:22 am, Justin Spahr-Summers
>> <Justin.SpahrSumm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Oct 25, 5:41 am, Chris Hills <ch...@phaedsys.org> wrote:
>> > > Hence is it C-pound or C-hash for C# ?
>> >
>> > It's officially "C sharp." Of course, why someone would even use such
>> > a symbol in the name of a language is beyond me.
>>
>> If you pay attention, the '#' symbol can be made of two '+' (with a
>> subtle vertical and horizontal offset).
>
> True, but irrelevant, since (as I'm semi-reliably informed) Sheesh is a
> cheap knock-off of Java, not of C++.

If by cheap you mean "not expensive", you are right, both are free albeit
not open source.
If you mean "low quality", you have been misinformed.

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Franz Hose <franz_hose_1993AD@yahoo.dk> writes:

> so how do professional programmers pronounce these things?

I seem to be in the majority except for:

> 6. x = y

"becomes" or "gets" (when I say it a lot)

> 7. x += n

"plus becomes". Ugly, but there are not C recitation prizes.

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Richard Heathfield wrote:

> Default User said:
>
> > Old Wolf wrote:
> >
> >
> >> > 5. Motif (like "motive" or more like the French word?)
> >>
> >> mow teef
> >
> > Is that "mow" as in "bow"?
>
> Is that "bow" as in "arrow", or "bow" as in "curtsey"?


Yes.



Brian

Chris Hills <chris@phaedsys.org> writes:
> In article <47258c02.930234095@news.xs4all.nl>, Richard Bos
> <rlb@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl> writes
>>Marjancek <marjancek@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 25, 8:22 am, Justin Spahr-Summers
>>> <Justin.SpahrSumm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On Oct 25, 5:41 am, Chris Hills <ch...@phaedsys.org> wrote:
>>> > > Hence is it C-pound or C-hash for C# ?
>>> >
>>> > It's officially "C sharp." Of course, why someone would even use such
>>> > a symbol in the name of a language is beyond me.
>>>
>>> If you pay attention, the '#' symbol can be made of two '+' (with a
>>> subtle vertical and horizontal offset).
>>
>>True, but irrelevant, since (as I'm semi-reliably informed) Sheesh is a
>>cheap knock-off of Java, not of C++.
>>Richard
>
> What is Sheesh?

Presumably a snide reference to C#.

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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 ...........