Wednesday 20 June 2007

It's Wednesday and spelling test day at school for my 8 year old daughter. This week the words are:

asked
answered
called
bellowed
cried
boomed
replied
demanded
said
screamed
shouted
whispered

Yes, these are conversation verbs. I guess it's a sign of the times that 8 year olds have entered the world of software programming. So, in the language of C, I offer my alternative spelling list:

GET_TYPE
[MC_]ALLOCATE
[MC_]CONFIRM
[MC_]CONFIRMED
[MC_]FLUSH
[MC_]GET_ATTRIBUTES
[MC_]RECEIVE_AND_POST
[MC_]PREPARE_TO_RECEIVE
[MC_]RECEIVE_AND_WAIT
[MC_]RECEIVE_IMMEDIATE
[MC_]REQUEST_TO_SEND
[MC_]DEALLOCATE

My 12 year old son is not impressed. Don't I know about Linux?