My Two Languages

My Two Languages

[John McCormick]

I thought the readers of this group would would enjoy the short essay by a "stay-at-home father and computer programmer" 

http://www.jasonfruit.com/page/two_languages

Re: My Two Languages

[Anh Vo]

On Jul 11, 2:52 pm, John McCormick <mccorm...@cs.uni.edu> wrote:
> I thought the readers of this group would would enjoy the short essay by a "stay-at-home father and computer programmer"
>
> http://www.jasonfruit.com/page/two_languages

This is an interesting and cool article. In addition, it is nice to
see good comments from an impartial folk. Thanks for the link.

Anh Vo

Re: My Two Languages

[Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)]

Le Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:52:17 +0200, John McCormick <mccormick@cs.uni.edu>  
a écrit:

> I thought the readers of this group would would enjoy the short essay by  
> a "stay-at-home father and computer programmer"
>
> http://www.jasonfruit.com/page/two_languages

The link says “C makes you feel like a 1337 h@xx0r;” What does this  
sentence means ?


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Re: My Two Languages

[Ludovic Brenta]

Yannick Duchêne wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> John McCormick <mccorm...@cs.uni.edu> a écrit:
>
>> I thought the readers of this group would would enjoy the short essay by  
>> a "stay-at-home father and computer programmer"
>
>> http://www.jasonfruit.com/page/two_languages
>
> The link says “C makes you feel like a 1337 h@xx0r;” What does this  
> sentence means ?

Glad you don't understand, that confirms you're not a "leet hacker"
who revels on obfuscated code.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

--
Ludovic Brenta.

Re: My Two Languages

[Marc C]

On Sep 13, 8:53 am, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> The link says “C makes you feel like a 1337 h@xx0r;” What does this  
> sentence means ?

"C makes you feel like an [elite] [hacker]".

Utilizing the terse, cryptic programming style that C lends itself to
can cause one to assert a claim of being a highly capable programmer.

The author's formulation and use of "leetspeak" (https://
secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Leet) in the sentence is
intended to be ironic.

Marc A. Criley