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

[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...

[John Oxley]

^KD is more common for me (Format code) My email client doesn't like it either surprisingly.

[Caslen]

This is called being 'a geek' or 'a nerd'. The most common symptom is to lose the ability to interact socially hence your problems communicating. Fortunately there is a cure - all you have to do is:- "GET A LIFE"

[TGKN]

Well, looks like you're not the only one.. check out this.

[dandy72]

Roger Wright wrote:

No shrink is necessary - just try to keep the conversation at a level of abstraction suitable for your audience, and save the interesting bits for conversations here among your peers.

So, what you're saying is that he's just using the wrong interface? (oh, crap! I have it too! :doh: )

[Clint Helton]

clapHands((areYouHappy() && doYouKnowIt())? true : false));

[Miroslav Bucko]

Teacher: Write "I will not make paper airplanes in the classroom" 50 times on the board. Student:

for(int counter = 0; counter <=50; counter++ )
{
Console.Writeline("I will not make paper airplanes in the classroom ");
}

:) :)

[Jpuckett]

This isn't weird at all. In fact, it has become generally accepted that even the language you first learn (or languages) define your very experience in the world by defining the thought processes and behavioral patterns you exhibit in relation to specific words, phrases or linguistic patterns. See: early works of Sapiri and Whorl re: Language and Behavioral Patterns or Thought Processes -- LMGTFY Link[^] This is even more true among computer scientists. The many experienced (read: been doin' this a while) computer scientists out there are polyglots by necessity since there is no singular language (yet) that can "do it all" markedly simply. --Yes, I realize I can use assembly to write this Web Application provided I write all parts of the Request/Response etc., but I'm not into S&M. Thanks.-- We tend to generalize a problem into our most-used (if not native or first) language before moving to applicable alternatives. Why? Language defines how we view everything. Language itself is meant to convey ideas, pictures, behavioral description, and other concrete or abstract concepts to the listener. For example, in English pronouns are used to relate feminine or masculine traits to individuals. In Spanish, French, and German (as well as other Germanic languages), not only are individiuals feminine or masculine, but also other nouns themselves inherit these attributes. Long story short... No, you're not weird. No matter what anyone says about programming affecting their thought processes: it has. It will. There's no way around it other than perhaps your mind already did it and you were a natural-born programmer. :) Cheers, JP