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The only way one should code C btw. (feddit.org)

submitted 5 days ago by genfood@feddit.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago

What's wrong with beinhalten?

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 6 points 5 days ago

Handhalten is more romantic.

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

The romantic version would be händchenhalten. Handhalten sounds efficiently German, but not romantic.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago

But that ruins the joke! You Germans and your utter and complete lack of a sense of humour, sheesh.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago

It doesn't fit very well in this context, the idea behind "beinhalten" is that the subject "includes" the object (i.e. the object is part of the content of the subject), but the #include command in the C preprocessor isn't about describing that kind of situation, it's a command "I want to include one file in another", a better verb in German for that is "einbinden". (I realize this isn't a very good explanation, but I'm a native speaker of German and can tell you that no one would use the verb "beinhalten" in this context.)

The previous commenter's German teacher likely prefers "enthalten" instead of "beinhalten", which has the same problem in this context though.