On Wed, 14 May 2008 19:54:31 +0200, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
>> What is this obsession some people have with speaking code out loud?
>
> I don't know it was an obsession. I was thinking more of (say) an  
> over-the-phone job interview kind of question.

Even worse. I would question the competence of an interviewer asking me to  
"speak source" to him over the phone. Verbal communication is a really  
poor medium for accurately conveying such things. Programming languages  
are (COBOL aside) designed to be read/written, not spoken.


> Certainly if your language is so full of baroque character combinations  
> that nobody even agrees how to read it out loud, there's something  
> wrong. Especially given that even APL isn't that bad, and APL doesn't  
> even use ASCII. :-)

APL uses only one-character operators. You could recite C++ source one  
character at a time too.



This is something of a pet peeve of mine, gained after hearing far too  
many people trying (and failing miserably) to communicate source code  
verbally.


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FE

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