13 Jun
2023
13 Jun
'23
6:30 a.m.
At 2023-06-13T09:57:08+1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Monday, 12 June 2023 at 18:39:32 -0400, Clem Cole
wrote:
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
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 5:39 PM G. Branden
Robinson <g.branden.robinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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? It's an ill wind that blows a Fortran
runtime using the same convention.
Be careful there, weedhopper ...