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From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: COFF <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: Weedhopper?  (was: crt0 -- what's in that name?)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:30:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230613003035.adjty5npcpxfa6a3@illithid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230612235708.GI83871@eureka.lemis.com>

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At 2023-06-13T09:57:08+1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Monday, 12 June 2023 at 18:39:32 -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 5:39 PM G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> It's an ill wind that blows a Fortran runtime using the same convention.
> >
> > Be careful there, weedhopper ...
> 
> Now there's a word I have never heard before.  Neither have my
> dictionaries, and Google gets sidetracked.  What's the meaning and the
> background?

I interpreted it as a coinage based on the old _Kung Fu_ television
series (where David Carradine's youthful and callow character was called
"grasshopper" by his sensei), hybridized with a suggestion that, to
speak ill of Fortran, I must be stoned out of my gourd.  ;-)

Regards,
Branden

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2023-06-12 22:39         ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: crt0 -- what's in that name? Clem Cole
2023-06-12 22:50           ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-06-12 22:57             ` Clem Cole
2023-06-12 23:04           ` Paul Winalski
2023-06-12 23:49             ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-06-13 16:28               ` Paul Winalski
2023-06-13 17:04                 ` segaloco via COFF
2023-06-13 17:32                   ` Clem Cole
2023-06-13 17:02               ` [COFF] Re: UNIX and its users - new or old Clem Cole
2023-06-14 13:33                 ` Dan Cross
2023-06-14 15:39                   ` Clem Cole
2023-06-14 22:13                     ` Dan Cross
2023-06-15  4:20                       ` Adam Thornton
2023-06-15 12:13                         ` Dan Cross
2023-06-12 23:57           ` [COFF] Weedhopper? (was: crt0 -- what's in that name?) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-06-13  0:30             ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
2023-06-13  3:07               ` [COFF] " Clem Cole
2023-06-13  3:05             ` Clem Cole
2023-06-13  3:26               ` Bakul Shah

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