How do you speak your code?

I never grew out of that childish creative habit of inventing my own silly names for things, and I know that all programmers are the same at heart. There's nothing quite like having a good reason to say "bang ping foo bar" a couple of times a day. I think that while we have a common language and superficially similar keyboards and character sets there's a lot of subtlety to how we speak code orally and there are local dialects with their own curious sounds. I mean does anybody actually say "Double Yoo, Double Yoo, Double Yoo" for www anymore? Of course not, round my way its a dubdub.

The character ~ is always a wibble to me. Some people call them twiddles, and I think tilde is the correct name. But 'correct' is hardly well defined in this world where Americans think that # is a pound. It's a hash. Which is why I always thought a good programming syntax would have
#hash = {}; to delcare one.

To help coding we make up names for common symbol combinations. The spaceship operator has to be the coolest, most appropriate I can think of. In the context of qq~ a ~ is a Barney McGroo to me and I am often looking for a missing Cuthbert Dibble Grub ~; (which will only make sense if you're English I think) Similarly a / becomes a wallop, as in hash-bang-wallop #!/

Do you make up your own terminology to help communicate code orally or remember it and do you know any particularly cool or apt ones from your own culture?

In reply to Spoken Code by andyf

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