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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Humour and Jokes => Topic started by: AngelFish on March 25, 2011, 03:16:49 pm

Title: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: AngelFish on March 25, 2011, 03:16:49 pm
It has recently come to light that a significant number of the community's most accomplished z80 Assembly programmers, including thepenguin77(Brian Coventry), FloppusMaximus (Benjamin Moody), calc84maniac (Brendan Fletcher), Ben Ryves, and Brandon Wilson all have first names beginning with the letter "B." This statistically significant event is obviously full of mystical meaning, so what is your hypothesis as to why this is?

/me thinks that it's the result of the Calculator Gods favoring masters who have the letter "B" as the first letter of their name :P
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: jnesselr on March 25, 2011, 03:22:32 pm
Okay, we also need to document their calcs names.  For example, mine is Bert.  (Inside joke)
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: Xeda112358 on March 25, 2011, 03:36:54 pm
Well, ironically, I have always seen 11 as a pretty number because it reminds me of a mix of rational and irrational concepts (B=11) as well as a mix of the colors black and white. Anywho, I am trying to think of my calcy's name. I'm thinking Brika or Bri for short. (Pronounced bree-kuh)
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: AngelFish on March 25, 2011, 03:42:52 pm
How about Brie? Then your calculator could be named after a cheese and someone named Brie :p
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: Freyaday on March 25, 2011, 04:06:19 pm
My calc's name is September.
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Post by: turiqwalrus on March 25, 2011, 04:07:03 pm
how about 'brick'? :P
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Post by: Ashbad on March 25, 2011, 04:08:54 pm
I think maybe because true assembly programmers use the B register in place of the Arithmetic one :P
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: Freyaday on March 25, 2011, 04:10:31 pm
Or maybe somebody's messing with us. Quigibo's name doesn't begin with B, though....
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: Xeda112358 on March 25, 2011, 04:59:44 pm
I like Brie... but I need a name with one and a half syllables!
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 25, 2011, 05:02:09 pm
How about Brie? Then your calculator could be named after a cheese and someone named Brie :p
We actually have a girl member (CoolioJazz's sister) using the nickname BrieCheese. O.O

This is interesting, though. I never realized that.

That said, KermMartian breaks the trend, since his real name starts with C. Quigibo might not count, though, since he started serious ASM programming only like 2 years ago, while the others started between 5 and 10 years ago.
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: Freyaday on March 25, 2011, 05:02:16 pm
Illlit.
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: yunhua98 on March 25, 2011, 05:10:06 pm
Does that mean Obama's secrectly an amazing calc programmer?  :o
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Post by: Munchor on March 25, 2011, 05:13:07 pm
Hum, what about BOB!
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: jnesselr on March 25, 2011, 05:50:36 pm
Does that mean Obama's secrectly an amazing calc programmer?  :o
No.
Hum, what about BOB!
I highly doubt it.  I actually haven't seen a program from BOB!, actually.  It would be awesome if he was, though.

So is this correlation, or does naming your kid B* work?
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: AngelFish on March 25, 2011, 06:26:33 pm
Okay, we need to test this...
/me squints at the nearest hospital.

Let us name her Brittany, because we're running out of unique male names that start with "B"
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: Yeong on March 25, 2011, 06:30:57 pm
or B' will work. XD
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: jnesselr on March 25, 2011, 08:25:24 pm
How about Black Star?  (Please, someone be a soul eater fan and understand this reference. Please!)  Awesome programmer + Biggest ego ever == ...
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: Deep Toaster on March 25, 2011, 08:29:18 pm
A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billio Circles.
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: Munchor on March 26, 2011, 08:20:37 am
I just browsed through this (http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/authors.html) and there are not many authors starting with B :(
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: Raylin on March 26, 2011, 09:35:44 am
All current calc names are in the signature.
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: FinaleTI on March 26, 2011, 09:49:52 am
How about Black Star?  (Please, someone be a soul eater fan and understand this reference. Please!)  Awesome programmer + Biggest ego ever == ...
Didn't Excalibur have an ego that was as big, if not bigger, though? Plus, it would then give you the right to interrupt anyone to call them a fool. Win-win!
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: Deep Toaster on March 26, 2011, 11:17:44 am
I just browsed through this (http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/authors.html) and there are not many authors starting with B :(

Busiest != best, most downloaded != best :)

Also wow, KermMartian is rapidly going up in the download ranks there :o
Title: Re: Names and Programming ability?
Post by: jnesselr on March 26, 2011, 11:52:24 am
How about Black Star?  (Please, someone be a soul eater fan and understand this reference. Please!)  Awesome programmer + Biggest ego ever == ...
Didn't Excalibur have an ego that was as big, if not bigger, though? Plus, it would then give you the right to interrupt anyone to call them a fool. Win-win!
True, but who has time to program with all of those rules....  Plus, you get Black Star's enormous wavelength.