Now, unlike high school math or in algebra Z where you call things X and Y and Z, in programming, in computer science, you're actually dealing with humans where it's useful to have a variable name that's more descriptive than X and Y and Z.

不像高中数学或者代数中,称为X和Y和，在程序设计和计算机科学里，你实际上是在和人打交道,在这里有个描述性比xyz更强的,变量名称是很重要的。

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It's only copying the address that was returned by get string so even though conceptually is the name this program suggests, I really just want to make a copy so that maybe I can make one version of D-A-V-I-D or F-O-O all uppercase or all lowercase or I want to spell check, something.

而只是复制GetSting返回的地址,虽然这个程序表示的名称，我只想做一个拷贝,以便我可以做一个D-A-V-I-D或者F-O-O的版本,大写的或者小写的,或者拼写检查之类的。

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