{"id":9202,"date":"2005-07-07T00:36:08","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/07\/char-or-trout\/"},"modified":"2005-07-07T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T21:36:08","slug":"char-or-trout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/07\/char-or-trout\/","title":{"rendered":"Char or trout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Consider the joke told by Richard Stallman that I read in this article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Once I was eating in Legal Sea Food and ordered arctic char. When it arrived, I looked for a signature, saw none, and complained to my friends, “This is an unsigned char. I wanted a signed char!” I would have complained to the waiter if I had thought he’d get the joke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Until today, the word “char” had only one meaning to me. It was a computer term, which is used as a declaration of a character or string variable in some programming languages. Such as C, for example.<\/p>\n

It turns out, that there is another meaning. Here is a quote from the dictionary<\/a> for you:<\/p>\n

also charr<\/strong> (n. pl. char or chars also charr or charrs)<\/p>\n

Any of several fishes of the genus Salvelinus<\/em>, especially the arctic char, related to the trout and salmon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wikipedia<\/a> entries for those of you who want to learn more on this fishy subject: Salvelinus<\/a>, Arctic char<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Consider the joke told by Richard Stallman that I read in this article: Once I was eating in Legal Sea Food and ordered arctic char. When it arrived, I looked for a signature, saw none, and complained to my friends, “This is an unsigned char. I wanted a signed char!” I would have complained to … Continue reading Char or trout<\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"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":[179,181,59,141,2418,243,2828,271],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-dictionary","tag-english","tag-expressions","tag-food","tag-humor","tag-language","tag-richard-stallman","tag-salvelinus"],"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