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From: daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'char'
Message-ID: <1186@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 13:36:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 13:36:05 1987
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In article <4575@cae780.TEK.COM> comdisco@cae780.UUCP (Comdisco) writes:
>
>	We are having an intense debate in our company which is costing
>us an enormous amount of time and money.  The debate concerns the proper
>pronunciation of the C language variable type "char".
>
>   1. One group claims it is pronounced like first syllable of "charcoal".
>
>   2. Another group says it is pronounced like the word "car".
>
>   3. Still another group says it is pronounced "care".
>
>	We would greatly appreciate any opinions on the subject.
>      
>
>                                      - Mark "Ban Hippies" Kaplan
> 

It is unfortunate that such a trivial concern can cause an 'enormous' amount
of money to be wasted. What IS important is that when communicating a code
fragment, the receiving party totally comprehends that communication.

I doubt that anyone will be confused if I said
"car star variable"
	vs.
"care asterisk variable"
	vs.
"care star varaible".
As long as the grammatical mapping is one-to-one, leave well enough alone.

P.S.  Netlanders:

I is with great difficulty that I refrained from expressing my opinion of
'proper' pronounciation. Please, show similar restraint and let's not waste
the time or space on subjects of trivial usefulness.
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