[COFF] Weedhopper? (was: crt0 -- what's in that name?)

[Clem Cole]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 8:30 PM G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robinson at 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 at 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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