What’s in a name?

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andyli@lemmy.world · 139 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--

https://xkcd.com/327/

candyman337@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y

Good ol' Bobby Tables

veniasilente@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y

Thank you! I was getting worried.

harsh3466@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Came here looking for Little Bobby Tables with the link loaded up in my clipboard!

Speiser0@feddit.de · 81 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Yes, I'll name my child parent. This will reverse the tree, vertically.

LinearArray@programming.dev · 12 pts · 2y

It's Sims 2 all over again.

kibiz0r@midwest.social · 11 pts · 2y

And if they settle on they/them pronouns, you could have an inverted non-binary tree.

sverit@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y

It's like naming your dog 'Cat'.

JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee · 67 pts · 2y (3 replies)

What about Alice, Bob, and Eve?

rockSlayer@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 2y (2 replies)

They're currently shaking hands and too busy to let us borrow their names

whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Even if they weren't you wouldn't be able to contact them directly, nowadays they have s man in the middle who handles their communications. badum tss

Zangoose@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 2y

You'll have to settle for naming your child after one of their public keys, but then your child will only be able to talk to them.

somegeek@programming.dev · 52 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I love you so much NullPointerException

astraeus@programming.dev · 20 pts · 2y

Oh no, we’ve lost NaN again!

Michael717@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

"don't throw your child please." "Why? What's wrong with it?"

iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 2y (3 replies)

fun fact elif is a legit girl name in Turkish

Michal@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

My grandma watches this

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4745726/

Tixanou@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Lol, my mother used to watch it too

iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

don't even know what this is but I have been abroad since maybe 2010 so not suprised

lugal@sopuli.xyz · 35 pts · 2y (4 replies)

"Pointer, where are you?" Points at Parent, my other child

over_clox@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

OOP issues LOL!

ICastFist@programming.dev · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Pointer, where is This, your other sibling?

tsonfeir@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y

They’re with Self and Construct.

kibiz0r@midwest.social · 2 pts · 2y

Pointer moved to Hollywood, to become a character star. They had a string of interviews, but it ended in nothing.

technom@programming.dev · 33 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Why no Ada or Janet? Or Haskell or Idris?

Tja@programming.dev · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Ada is in fact named after a person, thus completing the circle.

technom@programming.dev · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

So are Haskell and Idris (well, if you consider a singing dragon as a person).

lhamil64@programming.dev · 11 pts · 2y

Boolean is named after George Boole so that is too, sort of

alyth@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2y
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peyotecosmico@programming.dev · 28 pts · 2y (1 reply)

You know, OOP in Spanish translates as "Programación orientada a objetos" or POO in case you need it

alyth@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
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Dehydrated@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y

"Yo shut the fuck up Linked list, you're annoying as hell"

mstrk@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y (1 reply)

A friend of mine named his dog Byte. The dog is very playful, and has the habit of running in the direction of other people he meets.

When the dog does that my friend tries to call him back shouting: "BYTE!! BYTE!!". People get really scared when this happens 😂

Okay, not so funny if you are the one being approached by the dog.

Ashen44@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 2y

That's probably a little unethical but the mental image is absolutely hilarious.

Railison@aussie.zone · 26 pts · 2y

Little baby FORTRAN

geogle@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Meet my kids, Sed and Awk.

Alfi@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 2y

And my dog, Cat.

Dehydrated@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What about grep and ack?

geogle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Those are our names. My parents were Less and More.

Dehydrated@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I guess head and tail are your grandparents?

Asudox@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y (4 replies)

"child" seems to be enough. short and concise.

zerofk@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y

“Slave” works too.

2deck@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

child-1 just in case

dyc3@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

Yeah leave em wondering what happened to child-0

wieson@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Error in line 1: You can't use a reserved symbol in a variable name.

butmingus@lemm.ee · 21 pts · 2y

Definitely naming my next dog Byte.

Edit: Petabyte!

NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
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FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee · 19 pts · 2y

Ah yes Julia, an unreasonably effective name to give your child

ParsnipWitch@feddit.de · 16 pts · 2y

How could they forget Pascal :/

lemmytellyousomething@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Just name your child Linus like we all do...

astraeus@programming.dev · 5 pts · 2y

His middle names are Tech and Tips, his nickname is Torvalds

TruthAintEasy@kbin.social · 16 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Just name the kid Basic, hardly worse than the Trahgedhieghs running around today

einlander@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

But what if they write sins instead?

SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 2y (2 replies)

This reminded me I haven't heard from my uncle Foo Bar in a while. (He spells it Fubar)

ICastFist@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Ain't that the right way to spell it?

SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

I think either way is perfectly acceptable. He just prefers Fubar and who am I to argue?

shotgun_crab@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y

Oh yes, OOP, the namest of names

Diplomjodler@feddit.de · 14 pts · 2y (2 replies)

As a Python programmer I'll have to name my child Dictionary, of course.

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 2y

"My ordered set of kids? Wouldn't change them for anything. They're tuple-lets!"

honurash@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Dic for short

ICastFist@programming.dev · 13 pts · 2y (9 replies)

Zig missing from the list is sad for very old meme reasons, too.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

In A.D. 2001
Memes were beginning

apubtest1@apubtest1.srcbeat.com · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

omg the newgrounds site still loads?!

otl@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y

of course!

zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What you say?

ICastFist@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y

You are on your way to destruction make your time!

swordsmanluke@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y

Clearly they took off every Zig.

dan@upvote.au · 2 pts · 2y

For great justice

MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Thank you for that. I was young once 😭

dan@upvote.au · 4 pts · 2y

My wife and I are the same age but I started using the internet around 1999 whereas she didn't use it until many, many years later.

It's fun because I can show her old memes for the first time. She missed the entire "lol so random" era of internet memes (think things like badger badger badger, "my spoon is too big", forehead shavecut, animutations, etc) and doesn't quite understand it. It's all we had back then!

potentiallynotfelix@iusearchlinux.fyi · 12 pts · 2y

Oop

Lemminary@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I'm naming mine 1337Code jr

xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y

For some reason I got an out of bounds memory exception when trying to dereference the parent.

victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Kind of has the same cadence to it as James Bond Jr. I like it.

nxdefiant@startrek.website · 11 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I'm naming my mid Iron Python and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

DinosaurSr@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Oh wow is that still a thing?

nxdefiant@startrek.website · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

no idea, but the name is excellent.

asteriskeverything@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Damn right it is 🤘

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

Nothing beats Bobby Tables.

bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

Eula.

milliams@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

I like "Vectoria".

AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
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De_Narm@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Haskell? Curry? Maybe even Brooks.

nifty@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Haskell is an awesome name for a baby

ICastFist@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y

Oberon and Pascal, too. Or TurboPascal if you want to go the extra mile.

pkill@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y
  • Monad
  • Functor
  • Lambda
  • Pure
  • Lisp
  • Recur
  • Arity
  • Memo
  • Transduce
  • Lein
  • Cabal
  • Akka
  • Eval
xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

Don't forget Elm!

awake01@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Lua

kuneho@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Lua-Nil

librecat@lemmy.basedcount.com · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Naming things kids is the hardest part of programming.

hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Just put them in an unnamed array 'kids' and start with 0.

ohlaph@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Don't give elon any ideas.

w00@feddit.de · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Error also has a nice ring to it

PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Obligatory:

frezik@midwest.social · 4 pts · 2y

I'm surprised this isn't memed more. Like, it's canon that there's a guy named Error running around in Hyrule and everyone has forgotten this.

MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 8 pts · 2y

Shhhh. My spouse hasn't caught on, yet.

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 8 pts · 2y

My first kitten was called Rails, but be run away. The second one, Ruby, but she died from sickness the second day we had her home. The third one was Rails 2, but we called him just Rails, he's 10 yo now. The fourth one wad called PowerBI, buy ny wife didn't like and it was a lame name anyway so we changed it to Sushi.

MrFappy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

If you name her Julia, you can wake her up with the wonderful meme of “Good morning Julia, it’s me, Joe…”

waz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

This reminds me of an article I read about a guy whose last name was Null.

This isn't it but is the first one I found when looking.

https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/

The story is pretty much what you would expect but still an amusing read.

fidodo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Fork

turbodrooler@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Actually considering that for my first-compiled

AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

goto

jerrythegenius@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 2y

My son GIGO never quite meets expectations.

AmidFuror@kbin.chat · 7 pts · 2y (3 replies)

We named our son "Foo Bar" but we used the alternate spelling "Fubar" to make it look more reasonable.

ohholyjesus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

This is a joke, right? Because FUBAR is not something you should name a kid.

Deebster@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Self-fulfilling nominative determinism right there.

jimbolauski@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

Like naming your daughter Methany.

veniasilente@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y

CTRL+F 'Robert'

0 hits

Really?

tsonfeir@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

PHP. It’s pronounced, PhhhhP

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2y

php, pronounced philip

MiDaBa@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y
  • Orphan Process
  • Null
  • Char
  • Object
  • Instance
  • Bug
0x0@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2y

Exception Segfault Binary

bilboswaggings@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 2y

My favorite IT based names and the reason why I want two kids: Master and slave

ThePantser@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

My dogs are Ping and Ruby

Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 2y

Ada?

Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc · 5 pts · 2y (3 replies)

404

victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I've seen you around quite a bit, crabby. Nice to see you again. 👋

Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Hi 👋

Lemmy is small so we see familiar face often 🙈

victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Definitely 😊 Hope you're well!

over_clox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Don't forget LOLCode (yes that's a thing)

WeirdAlex03@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Brainfuck has entered the chat

mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Motherfucker how many //es do you have to put with https: its crashing my lemmy app when trying to open.

Have you Brainfucked the link?

WeirdAlex03@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y

I did not include any //es with the https:, but I put just the one usual pair with the ttps:. Oh. Hmm. Yes, it appears I have indeed Brainfucked the link

(try now)

frezik@midwest.social · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

OOM

capital@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Killer’s my middle name.

JATtho@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y

Reaper of the VMAs.

Holzkohlen@feddit.de · 4 pts · 2y

I will name my firstborn 'OOM killer'.

db2@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Forindo Iffi **int

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y

Boolean ftw XD

LinearArray@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y

Saving this for the future.

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 3 pts · 2y

OOP

There it is.

GarlicToast@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y
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zerofk@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

C++ would be called C for short.

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)

most are bad names

Persen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I belive rust is a normal name.

owsei@programming.dev · 10 pts · 2y (1 reply)

julia and ruby are pretty common also

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y

who knows array could be allowed

Darkpepito_tux@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Naming your kid Byte or Bit is a bad idea in french-speaking countries

Tja@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

IIRC Bit is penis, but what is byte?

jxk@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

Same, but written differently

jxk@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

Same, but written differently

TheSealStartedIt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

NPE

TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Dot, Enzo, Bob, Phong...

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y

If Archer and Parker and Miller get to be first names…my next kid is Pointer.

CCF_100@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

Name your child Segmentation fault

rxbudian@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
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