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.  ;-)