Timeline for Standards for reading code out loud?
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| Jul 6, 2011 at 16:59 | answer | added | benzado | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 6, 2011 at 16:41 | vote | accept | benzado | ||
| Jul 5, 2011 at 22:09 | comment | added | benzado | I was mainly wondering if anybody (like, IBM in the 1970s) actually produced a document for how to pronounce code out loud. There are several reasons why one might (screen reading, lectures, code review, phone conversations), but I'm getting the sense that it's always been handled on an ad hoc basis. Which is not really that surprising. | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 21:08 | comment | added | Peter Turner | @Mason Fortunately, Colon Equals | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 21:01 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | @Peter: Just out of curiosity, how do you pronounce := ? | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 21:00 | answer | added | user29981 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 20:56 | answer | added | John Gaines Jr. | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 20:09 | comment | added | unpythonic | @Rook - Exactly. Until the author chimes in, we're just guessing. | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 20:03 | comment | added | Rook | @Mark - Can't say. You could be right, maybe I'm in the wrong. My undestanding was that he's interested in one of those readers for blind/near blind people that read text on screen out loud. If we're talking about a standard way of reading such text, I think there is no place for personalization. Since different people read same words in a different manner, I think it's gonna be a hard task developing a standard way of reading code. Also, what english are we using? Accents? All highly variable dependin gon region. | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 19:58 | history | edited | benzado | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added examples of contexts |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 19:41 | answer | added | unpythonic | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 19:35 | comment | added | Covar | @Victor Braga a code review springs to mind. Stepping through the code for you're reviewer. Teaching is also another area. | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 19:34 | comment | added | unpythonic | @Rook - I guess I read his statement differently. He said that he could imagine such a standard being important for programs like screen readers, not that he wanted to implement a code reader. It sounds to me as if there's a (perhaps informal) standard way of reading code. | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 19:24 | comment | added | Rook | @Mark Mann - We are talking about computer reading aloud. Not human reading. Have you heart how regular english sound read like that, let alone programming-language-english! | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 19:16 | comment | added | Peter Turner | This would also be useful for dictating programs during the commute. Fortunately, being a Delphi program I would only dictate with extreme elegance. | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 19:13 | comment | added | unpythonic | @Rook - Actually, Perl reads very well unless you read each sigil. What makes Perl so flexible and prone to abuse is that it was designed to be as expressive as English. This is what happens when the creator is a linguist. | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 19:07 | comment | added | Vitor Py | Just for curiosity, why do you read code aloud? I think I never did it | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 19:03 | comment | added | Rook | Reading Perl out loud ... <oh the pain> | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 18:58 | history | asked | benzado | CC BY-SA 3.0 |