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From: [email protected] (Jens Schweikhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c,comp.std.c,comp.unix.programmer,talk.bizarre
Subject: CONTEST: C goof protection poetry (was: How do you pronounce "char"?)
Date: 12 Apr 1997 12:21:28 GMT
Organization: Regional Network of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
References: <01bc45e6$084f7170$0b11b383@blastcap> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Kaz Kylheku) writes:
# In article <[email protected]>,
# Tim Behrendsen <[email protected]> wrote:
# >Frank Fabbrocino <[email protected]> wrote in article
# ><01bc45e6$084f7170$0b11b383@blastcap>...
# >> I can't stand it when people pronounce "char" as in char-broiled steaks.
# >> Especially when its "char*"! YUCK!
# >
# >Ah, but it's so poetic!
# >Char - Star... really rolls off the tongue.
#
# So does car star! :)
#
# >*Clearly* superior. :-)
#
# Twinkle, twinkle little char,
# oh how slippery you are!
# Some, like Schildt, say you're eight bits,
# but we know that they're just twits!
Brilliant! Let me present to the programming community a variation
on the theme.
Careful, careful precious main,
Some, like Schildt, who are insane,
would declare a void return
which could cause a raster burn.
Time for a new contest, folks. I'm calling out the one and only original
C Goof Protection and Prevention Poetry Contest
Goal of the contest: To enlighten and educate in a humourous and
memorizable manner about certain common goofs likely to be made by
the uninformed. Contest entries should be some sort of rhyme,
limericks welcome. Short stories and novels are frowned upon
and should be entered in a separate (yet to announce) contest.
Prize: Fame and admiration from C programmers all over the world.
The best entries may make it into the FAQ's Miscellaneous section,
be printed on t-shirts an sold at conferences. You name it, you do
it...
Apologies for the excessive cross posting.
Jens
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Is it just me, or does this really confuse what is actually being
offered?
In article <[email protected]>
CAC Microcomputer Order Center <[email protected]> writes:
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>
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>
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