ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]

Re:ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008] by zorked on Friday April 15, 2011 @05:08AM (#2449915)

` as backtick is rare? I thought it was the standard.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008] by jazzyb on Friday April 15, 2011 @08:43AM (#2450330)

I've always heard it called that myself, but it's usually shortened to just "tick" where I work now.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008] by magicofpi on Friday April 15, 2011 @06:04AM (#2449987)

Where are you from? I've actually never heard it before (in the US).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008] by _delirium on Friday April 15, 2011 @08:42AM (#2450323)

I'm from the US, but I think I know it almost exclusively from Unix shell scripts and Perl documentation, where `foo` is called the "backtick operator".

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008] by michaelcampbell on Friday April 15, 2011 @09:07AM (#2450390)

Yes, I think it could be your (our) tech context more than geographical; I came up through the unix and perl worlds and am in the US, and have ONLY ever seen that as 'backtick'.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008] by Natsu on Friday April 15, 2011 @07:55AM (#2450219)

Yeah, I thought backtick was pretty normal myself and I'm from the US.

I'm guessing you don't know Perl? I think that's where I learned to call it that.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008] by hesselink on Friday April 15, 2011 @06:35AM (#2450043)

This is the only name for it I've heard here in the Netherlands.

[ Parent | on HN ]