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Commonwealth English in codans

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 8:31

Put yourself in this situation: You are a UK hacker writing a program, using, say, curses, where all the constants are written in US English (MAX_COLORS, etc.). Now you want to write a function that returns a random colour. Now consider this paradox: Do you call it randomColour, making the integrity of names suffer? or do you call it randomColor, making it look ugly in your own eyes? Now with ncurses it's not a problem, there are only few variables that you can easily #define and put into void.h. But with OpenGL, there's a crapload of that and I don't know what to do.

(I realise that this is going to turn into a language flamewar anyway, but whatever)

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 8:42

Je la nomme couleurAléatoire afin de protester contre l'impérialisme Américain.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 9:06

I don't see why you would care about UK hackers. After all, only an American could be enough of a boorish primitive to mishandle the word `paradox' as you just did, even in jest.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 9:28

Yo la llamo colorAleatorio para protestar contra el imperialismo americano.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 9:49

When it comes to `color` I just put up with it. For any other word I use Correct English.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 10:09

I name it rndclr.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 10:09

I just put up with it. For anything that is not programming, I use the Queen's English. When I'm programming, I just use U.S. idioms as a sort of homage to the significant contributions by U.S. nationals to establishing the technologies we use today.

I am educated of the history of the major players involved in computing and computer science and how only a portion of them are U.S. nationals. The fact of the matter is, the U.S. nationals happened to establish their technologies (and related idioms) at exactly the right time to get the whole world to adopt these technologies.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 10:32

making it look ugly in your own eyes?
I personally prefer to write colour, but I don't see how writing color would be ugly. Still, I'm not British so maybe that's why it doesn't really bother me.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 12:24

ITT french faggots complain about how americans use proper english instead of their bastard dialect of french.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 13:38

>>9
ITT shitty trolling.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 15:40

I just memorise the entire function list alphabetically and replace each function with its corresponding hexadecimal position in the list. I then proceed to name the functions I write after the original names alphabetically regardless of their purpose.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 17:38

>>9
faggots
From Old French fagot.

complain
From Old French complaindre.

use
From Old French us.

proper
From Old French propre.

bastard
From Old French bastard.

There is no such thing as English that isn't a bastard dialect of French. Anglish (Saxon English) is a good effort, but American is not.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 18:09

>>12
JE T'AIME!J'AIME TON MESSAGE!JE L'AI LU CINQUE FOIS!CONTINUE DE PUBLIER!

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 18:11

>>13
Merde, j'ai oublié l'espacement entre phrases.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 18:25

C'est la vie.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 19:33

Jeg skriver tilfeldig_farge og gir den et alias.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 19:33

This thread has been closed and replaced with the following thread:

Subject: Écrire sur /prog/ en Français
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Cela fonctionne.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 19:34

Heeft meer nederlands nodig.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 19:42

>>17
Francuz umrzeć

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 19:55

>>19
Oh fuck off you fucking polaczky przeciętniaczky

Name: Anonyme 2010-05-03 20:40

Omelette du fromage

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 21:45

British English is just homosexual and I'm not even American.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-03 21:46

>>1
You follow the convention, just like a hacker working with a program that uses UK conventions should follow that.

Is this really any different than asking whether a BSD developer should use GNU C style when contributing to the Linux kernel?

[spoiler]HIBT[spoiler]?

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 0:44

>>12
just because i'm stuck in britardia, doesn't mean i have to be proud of the fact that the fucking yanks speak our language better than we do.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 1:05

>>24
just because ... doesn't mean

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 4:42

I use a pleasant mix of both spellings, to make maintenance programmers really earn their money

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 4:44

You are now realizing that American English is the same way as English used to speak during Shakespeare's time.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 5:59

>>27
Thou must be kidding!

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 6:25

>>28
The accent, I mean. Check it out.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 7:37

>>29
Still wrong. Popular myth among American high school English teachers, though.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 7:54

I get it, like the myth about semicolons serving a purpose; being that they don't.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 8:33

>>31
Not when you use them like that.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 8:55

>>14

Tu sais surtout pas écrire cinq correctement.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 9:05

>>30
So linguists are the source of myths now?

Name: Anonyme 2010-05-04 9:26

>>33
VAÉT*



*Vous avez été trollé

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 9:41

>>34
Oui, comme Larry Wall et Perl. Son utilité est un mythe!

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 9:42

Voulez vous haxez mon anus ce soir

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 9:45

>>33
That's ``vous savez'' to you, plebs.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 12:49

ITT cunning linguists

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 15:27

ITT cunnilingus

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 15:53

>>40
ITT that's the joke

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 18:43

>>41
ITT YHBTYHBTYHBTYHBTYHBTYHBT

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-04 19:14

ITT                                   

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-31 21:02

<-- check em dubz
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