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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. 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. :-)
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>> I have a better question:
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>> How do you pronounce "fib = 1 : 1 : zipWith (*) fib (tail fib)" in
>> such a way that
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>> 1. the person hearing you will know exactly which expression you're
>> describing, and
>
> I'd say
> fib equals one colon one colon zipwith operator star fib paren tail fib
> end paren.
I tend to just use "open" and "close". (Especially for Haskell - surely
only Lisp itself has more brackets!)
PS. I can't believe Warp hasn't pointed out the obvious error yet...
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On Wed, 14 May 2008 19:54:31 +0200, Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> 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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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> PS. I can't believe Warp hasn't pointed out the obvious error yet...
There are multiple meanings for the word "fib" in English. ;-)
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Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> APL uses only one-character operators.
Not true. quote-quad and jot-dot both spring to mind.
> You could recite C++ source one
> character at a time too.
Sure, but it would be tedious. At least APL is short. ;)
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
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"We should go there on vacation some time."
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> I was thinking more of (say) an
> over-the-phone job interview kind of question.
Then I would say "I print 5 to the standard output".
It doesn't make sense to ask character-by-character syntax in a phone
interview.
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