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I haven't talked to German programmers lately. Is C# pronounced "Cis"?

The musical note C# is pronounced Cis, the programming language is pronounced C-sharp. Same for F#

If only there were a convenient way to enter rare characters on ordinary keyboards. There would be no more confusion between the musical note C𝄰 and the programming language C#. Or maybe the language would be called C𝄱 instead, confusing everyone to no end. (Those are three different symbols.)

EDIT: It appears that HN eats the "music sharp sign" character, but not "musical sharp up" or "musical sharp down".

For the record I only see the programming language #, neither of the other two.

I have not heard a single person here (Berlin) pronounce any of the # languages "is"-anything. Everyone I know just calls it C-Sharp.

I know people who say it jokingly. Never met anyone who meant it seriously.

Well, nowadays professional programmers call it C-Sharp, but some years ago there were a lot of people calling it Cis.

EDIT: While C-Sharp is the correct pronunciation there were even books calling is Cis: https://books.google.de/books?id=srryCQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA1&dq=pro...

In dutch C# is pronounced as Cis, yes. So I think in German as well. Though a programmer will still stay C-sharp.

How do they pronounce D-flat?

While we're at it, are Dis, Fis, Gis and Ais the other sharps?

D-flat is "Des". Dis, Fis, Gis and Ais are indeed the other sharps

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