> I never know how to pronounce "char." 1/2 of me wants to say it like
> it looks, but the other half argues that char is short for character
> and should be pronounced, "care."
I can at least shed some light on this problem. In my experience,
people who learned to program east of the Mississippi say "char" like
in "charcoal", while those of us who learned programming out west say
"care" as in "character". There also appears to be a small minority of
weirdos who say "car". :-)
And before you start composing an e-mail saying "hey, I learned to
program while living in [insert western state here] and I say 'char'"
or vice versa, just take another breath, hit the delete key, and move
on.
Also, if someone has already brought this up, I'm about 75 messages
behind on the list e-mail today. Talk about your high volume... it
even beats out the postfix list!
-jan-
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Jan L. Peterson
Semi-Unemployed "Computer Facilitator"
http://www.peterson.ath.cx/~jlp/resume.html
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