{"id":7522,"date":"2004-05-24T01:42:27","date_gmt":"2004-05-23T23:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/24\/programmers-talk\/"},"modified":"2005-04-17T07:49:54","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T04:49:54","slug":"programmers-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/24\/programmers-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Programmers&#8217; talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20040524-perl_use_strict.png\" alt=\"\"\/>There is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perlmonks.org\/index.pl?node_id=355095\">an interesting discussion<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perlmonks.org\">Perlmonks<\/a> about how programmers pronounce their code.  There are links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perlmonks.org\/index.pl?node_id=158060\">other nodes<\/a>.  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