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Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Posted Jun 29, 2012 21:18 UTC (Fri) by tjc (subscriber, #137)
In reply to: Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar) by zlynx
Parent article: Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Until you had to give a talk and figure out how to say it. Or google it.


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Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Posted Jun 29, 2012 21:51 UTC (Fri) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]

To C or not C. That is the question.

Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Posted Jun 29, 2012 22:05 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

See-why-see-colon-not-see. Hey, there are precedents: C# got away with a stupid C-based naming scheme.

Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Posted Jun 30, 2012 18:01 UTC (Sat) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

Hey, as a musician, I like the name C#! I don't know the language (as a matter of principle), but I do like the name.

Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Posted Jun 30, 2012 18:14 UTC (Sat) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

As a musician, I prefer D♭ over C♯.

Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Posted Jun 30, 2012 18:23 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

"C-sharp" would have been nice. C# is not cool. Not to search, not to write, not to anything.

Bleh, what can you do in a world where Google engineers name a language "Go", throwing googleability to the wind.

Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Posted Jul 2, 2012 22:19 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

> Bleh, what can you do in a world where Google engineers name a language "Go", throwing googleability to the wind.

I can't help with "googleability", but for "searching", use one[1] that understands conflated terms.

[1]https://duckduckgo.com/?q=go

Thanks, but only partial success

Posted Jul 2, 2012 22:25 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

The header explanation on your link is nice, but then the trick is just to search for "Go programming language", something I could do myself in Google. In fact clicking on "Go (programming language)", the second link is for an unrelated language and the fifth conflates totally unrelated terms together.

Thanks, but only partial success

Posted Jul 3, 2012 0:09 UTC (Tue) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

Golang works better... :-D

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