Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!teknowledge-vaxc!sri-unix!sri-spam!robert From: robert@sri-spam.istc.sri.com (Robert Allen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'char' Message-ID: <10732@sri-spam.istc.sri.com> Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 17:14:39 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-spam.10732 Posted: Fri Oct 9 17:14:39 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 00:53:57 EDT References: <4575@cae780.TEK.COM> <1384@dataio.Data-IO.COM> Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 20 Keywords: C language pronunciation Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:4810 comp.lang.misc:719 In article <1384@dataio.Data-IO.COM>, bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes: > 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". > > char is short for character, therefore it is pronounced 'care'. > > Here's to another worthless topic of discussion! So, by the same chain of logic a "char *fred" is "care pointer fred" instead of "char star fred"? :-) -- --------------------------------------------------------- Robert Allen, robert@spam.istc.sri.com 415-859-2143 (work phone, days) ---------------------------------------------------------