From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 12051 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2022 01:49:30 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 10 Sep 2022 01:49:30 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A525422BE; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 11:49:25 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9644041799 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 11:49:21 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (121-200-11-253.79c80b.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net [121.200.11.253]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8FF9280C9; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 01:49:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0BEA62635BD; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 11:49:20 +1000 (AEST) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 11:49:20 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Dave Horsfall Message-ID: <20220910014919.GA9081@eureka.lemis.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Message-ID-Hash: DAKT5QHPBY5XIZLFMOGUEULL747P4CX7 X-Message-ID-Hash: DAKT5QHPBY5XIZLFMOGUEULL747P4CX7 X-MailFrom: grog@lemis.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Obscene languages (was: Does anybody know the etymology of the term "word" as in collection of bits?) List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 10 September 2022 at 7:44:57 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: > COBOL? FORTRAN? RPG? Those are all swear words to me :-) Is this an indirect reference to the "Programmer's ABC" in the March 1976 issue of Datamation? I have a copy of the lot at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Humour/ABC.php, but the one I think you're referring to is: L is for language; use these three. Cobol, Fortran, RPG. Avoid all others, friend, and shun Those with the suffix "L slash I." And yes, I share your sentiment. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAmMb7R8ACgkQIubykFB6QiMQTQCbBM6vyVVnL8xGmQ5RinbNM6PL cmUAoIYe42LTFyxaPBrxZZy7NeK/2HgW =GI5k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--