Has any programming language ever affected your thought process in real life?

[Mark_Wallace]

Since I introduced COBOL's PERFORM VARYING into my home life, my wife hasn't stopped moaning.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[Geoff_GTV]

Learning C and being able to switch freely between Decimal, Hexadecimal and Octal etc. have certainly affected things... I once joined in a game of Canasta with my parents and found that I kept making runs of 8, 9, jack... leaving out the 10. - I thought I must be going mad, until I realised my mind was now thnking in base 13 instead of base 10. Maybe I should invent a game of Binary Domainos or something!

[uXuf]

I've frequently reached for Ctrl+F while going through those endless classified lists for jobs :sigh:

[Job86]

Does tapping the compile shortcut in a word document count? :P

[megaadam]

I daresay thirty years of assembly programming has not incremented xor inverted my thoughs by a single unsigned bit.

........................ Life is too shor

[blackjack2150]

A friend of mine had to write the same sentence twince on a piece of paper for an exam, so he wrote it the first time and then he underlined it to select it. He then realised he had no CTRL, C and V keys on the sheet of paper. :)

[Rage]

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

No.

Really ? Never ever ? Even never made an analogy such as "Yes, in programming, this would be a base class, these would be derived from it, and you could access the whole through this interface. In your case, the interface would be this and this...." ? Happens to me all the time.

[c2423]

I sometimes get wound up by people using "and" or "or" wrongly. Other then that, no.

[Lost User]

I've explained the idea of OOA to someone so they realise the cotnract they have written is c**p.

Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

[Vikram A Punathambekar]

Rage wrote:

Even never made an analogy such as "Yes, in programming, this would be a base class, these would be derived from it, and you could access the whole through this interface. In your case, the interface would be this and this...." ?

OK, slowly step away from the computer, and pull the plug in one quick motion. If-else branching: existed long before computers, doesn't count. Looping: OK, excusable in the real world. Inheritance: You need help. ;P

Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)

[Dennis de Greef]

When i'm among fellow programmer classmates i tend to reply with 1 or 0 on a boolean based question. Or i tend to write sentences\songs in a programming language. while(!touch($this)) // MC Hammer sing('na na na na, na na, na na'); At work when i ring the doorbell and a colleague awnsers the bell we do the 3way handshake. I say SYN, he sais SYN-ACK, i say ACK. And he opens the door for me. Am i too much of a geek? ;)

[Rage]

:-D

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

pull the plug in one quick motion

Never thought about that, let me try rig*puff*

[Rage]

Geoff_GTV wrote:

Binary Domainos

dominos are binary: Either they fit, or not.

[Henry Minute]

No specific programming language has affected my thought processes in real life. I have always thought about things differently than my family and most of my friends anyway. :) What programming has done to me is that when I have to write, or type something I suddenly find that I am using Pascal or Camel case. The amount of paper I have wasted because of that is probably responsible for at least half of global warming. :-D

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

[irenuncio]

I must confess that I cut bread and cakes recursively. True.

[Gary Wheeler]

Bit of advice: Never try to debug your personal relationships, although setting breakpoints with the spouse can be fun.

Software Zen: delete this;

[Lost User]

lol...true...

Ravie Busie Coding is my birth-right and bugs are part of feature my code has!

[nistrum404]

So if I was to dereference the pointer to the structure of what you're talking about and consider the sizeof the issue am I to assume that you've been trying to get at properties of people which don't exist? I've never found C++ to overwrite my thought processes :) --M

Matt Dockerty

[Gary Wheeler]

My brain has been known to throw exceptions now and then. They're called migraines X|.

Software Zen: delete this;

[Lost User]

Only one for me is when automated security systems ask "What number is the character X in your mother's maiden name?". I tend to forget normal people don't start counting at 0...