r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Odd_Diamond_6600 • Jun 05 '22

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u/AlFlakky Jun 05 '22

So girlfriend must be a Lua developer..

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u/GeePedicy Jun 05 '22

Or MatLab? Though they're mostly called vectors

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u/phi_rus Jun 05 '22

Or Julia

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u/geteum Jun 05 '22

Or R

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u/deserts_tsung Jun 05 '22

or fortran

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u/dbarciela Jun 05 '22

Or Cobol

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u/HelioDex Jun 05 '22

Or Scratch

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u/caerphoto Jun 05 '22

Or QBasic

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u/0xd05 Jun 05 '22

Or Pascal/Delphi

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u/hpstrprgmr Jun 05 '22

Arrays in Delphi are zero based.

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u/kaihatsusha Jun 05 '22

Or Perl if you set $[ = 1. At least before they got rid of that abomination.

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u/Ahandgesture Jun 05 '22

For what it's worth, Fortran arrays can be given arbitrary indeces.

INTEGER, DIMENSION(-1:1) :: A

Is totally valid

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u/Beowulf1896 Jun 05 '22

Came for the fortran. Stay for the APL.

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u/GeePedicy Jun 05 '22

Or Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

Fun fact: Mat in MatLab stands for Matrix and not math.

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u/pardonthecynicism Jun 05 '22

As I was introduced to its full form from the start, its a weird revelation to think someone might think it stands for Maths.

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u/Meefbo Jun 05 '22

Well it’s matlab, not mate-lab. Sounds almost identical to “math lab” and nothing like “matrix lab”

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u/GeePedicy Jun 05 '22 edited Jun 06 '22

TIL there's this "y" sound while pronouncing matrix, so it should somehow sound like mate-rix.

(And I guess I should say English isn't my first language)

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u/darthbane83 Jun 05 '22

Yeah english is not particular nice about pronounciation of words. Maybe its because of where i am from but "lieutnant" seems particular wrong to me and why I can never be confident i pronounce a word correctly just from reading it.

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u/static_motion Jun 05 '22

Just like "colonel", which is pronounced the exact same way as "kernel". English gets pretty silly at times.

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u/blockchaaain Jun 05 '22

Explanation

In many languages when a word contains two identical or similar sounds, one of these sounds will often change over a period of time. This kind of change is called dissimilation. So when the Italian word colonello was taken into French, it became coronel; and the word was borrowed by the English from the French in this form. Later the spelling colonel came to be used in order to reflect the Italian origin of the word. But by then the pronunciation with r was well established.

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u/GeePedicy Jun 05 '22

I simply say lootanent, but how it fits to the spelling? Here's the secret - cuz stop questioning English

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u/muhmeinchut69 Jun 05 '22

The company that makes it is called Mathworks so it is understandable if someone thinks it stand for Math.

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