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Names and Programming ability?
« 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?

* Qwerty.55 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
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Re: Names and Programming ability?
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2011, 03:22:32 pm »
Okay, we also need to document their calcs names.  For example, mine is Bert.  (Inside joke)
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Re: Names and Programming ability?
« Reply #2 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)
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Re: Names and Programming ability?
« Reply #3 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
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Re: Names and Programming ability?
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2011, 04:06:19 pm »
My calc's name is September.
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Re: Names and Programming ability?
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2011, 04:07:03 pm »
how about 'brick'? :P
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« Reply #6 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
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Re: Names and Programming ability?
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2011, 04:10:31 pm »
Or maybe somebody's messing with us. Quigibo's name doesn't begin with B, though....
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Re: Names and Programming ability?
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2011, 04:59:44 pm »
I like Brie... but I need a name with one and a half syllables!
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Re: Names and Programming ability?
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2011, 05:02:09 pm »
Quote from: Qwerty.55 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
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.
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Re: Names and Programming ability?
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2011, 05:02:16 pm »
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Re: Names and Programming ability?
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2011, 05:10:06 pm »
Does that mean Obama's secrectly an amazing calc programmer?  :o
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Re: Names and Programming ability?
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2011, 05:13:07 pm »
Hum, what about BOB!
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Re: Names and Programming ability?
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2011, 05:50:36 pm »
Quote from: yunhua98 on March 25, 2011, 05:10:06 pm
Does that mean Obama's secrectly an amazing calc programmer?  :o
No.
Quote from: Scout on March 25, 2011, 05:13:07 pm
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?
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Re: Names and Programming ability?
« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2011, 06:26:33 pm »
Okay, we need to test this...
* Qwerty.55 squints at the nearest hospital.

Let us name her Brittany, because we're running out of unique male names that start with "B"
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