{"id":26107,"date":"2016-05-15T15:31:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T13:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=26107"},"modified":"2016-05-15T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T13:33:59","slug":"programming-and-greek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/15\/programming-and-greek\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming and Greek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One thought that cracks me up every now and then is about Greek programmers. \u00a0In Greek language, instead of a question mark<\/a> a semicolon is used.<\/p>\n

\"Greek\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In many programming languages, a semicolon is used to represent the end of statement. \u00a0So, this:<\/p>\n

\r\n$a = $b + $c;\r\nprint $a;\r\n<\/pre>\n
to Greek programmers must be looking like this:<\/p>\n
\r\n$a = $b + $c?\r\nprint $a?\r\n<\/pre>\n
I don’t know about you, but to me this would be a constant confidence issue. \u00a0It’s almost like I’m not sure what I’m going and asking the computer to confirm.<\/p>\n
I’m sure though they have their ways of working around this …<\/p>\n
By the way, while reading through the Wikipedia article linked above, I thought that the possible origins of the question mark were quite interesting:<\/p>\n
\"questio\"<\/a><\/p>\n
 <\/p>\n
That would also explain why not all the languages are using the question mark character.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
One thought that cracks me up every now and then is about Greek programmers. \u00a0In Greek language, instead of a question mark a semicolon is used. In many programming languages, a semicolon is used to represent the end of statement. \u00a0So, this: $a = $b + $c; print $a; to Greek programmers must be looking … Continue reading Programming and Greek<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Programming and Greek #programming #Greek #WebDev","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[429,630,2418,243,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-26107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-culture","tag-greek","tag-humor","tag-language","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t