From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: COFF <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: Weedhopper? (was: crt0 -- what's in that name?)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:07:04 -0400 [thread overview]
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On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 8:30 PM G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. ;-)
>
Ah, the intended audience did catch the reference -- well done.
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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 ` [COFF] " G. Branden Robinson
2023-06-13 3:07 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2023-06-13 3:05 ` Clem Cole
2023-06-13 3:26 ` Bakul Shah
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