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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 288.1 | gutter-mind | CACHE::MARSHALL | hunting the snark | Thu Dec 11 1986 19:29 | 9 |
| "pulse my org"
sounds more obscene than clinical.
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| 288.2 | Department of gobbledegook | ECLAIR::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Fri Dec 12 1986 11:36 | 4 |
| > The idea was that an opportunity had come up if someone in the group
> the writer was a member of would be interested in responding to.
Steve, would you care to rephrase that?
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| 288.3 | | INK::KALLIS | Support Hallowe'en | Fri Dec 12 1986 13:16 | 17 |
| re .2:
Actually, I'd rather not, since I was trying to convey a feeling
[upon my part] of a convoluted process. ;-)
However, for Jeff's sake --
"I heard of an opportunity that the writer's group might wish to
avail itself of."
Re .1:
"clinical" as in medical may or may_not have an erotic component.
:-)
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 288.4 | Sounds electrical to me :^) | DAMSEL::MOHN | blank space intentionally filled | Fri Dec 12 1986 20:03 | 1 |
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| 288.5 | More DECjargon (TM)? | IOSG::DEMORGAN | | Tue May 19 1987 14:11 | 6 |
| Back in 1970 I received a TWX (Telex for the European fraternity)
from a person in Maynard. Its text was "Your TWX runs me some
confusion". I replied to the effect that I couldn't parse his message
into English.
Richard De Morgan.
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| 288.6 | sigh | EAGLE1::EGGERS | Tom, VAX & MIPS architecture | Thu Jan 19 1989 00:59 | 11 |
| Tom, this is the paragraph I was talking about. It wins my active
dislike.
The goal of the xxxxxxx concept review is to obtain feedback on the
processor early in the design cycle. After reviewing the original
agenda published in early December, it has been determined that the
format did not facilitate achieving the interactive discussions
required with you. Therefore, the agenda has been modified to
create an atmosphere that will provide the required interaction.
The project name has been edited out to protect the guilty.
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| 288.7 | what does "overarching" mean? | STAR::SZETO | Simon Szeto, International Sys. Eng. | Sun Feb 10 1991 07:44 | 10 |
| Is "overarching" a current buzzword around DEC? I saw that in a memo
by the Executive Committee (forwarded through my management) but I
can't find that word in my dictionary at work or at home, neither of
which is an OED or some large dictionary with lots of words.
Speaking of DECjargon, does "involuntary methodology" in the context of
layoffs qualify? Or is that just simple doublespeak?
--Simon
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| 288.8 | Not this time, Simon. | SMURF::SMURF::BINDER | Simplicitas gratia simplicitatis | Sun Feb 10 1991 21:30 | 12 |
| No, "overarching" isn't DECjargon. From the OED:
Overarching ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ing(2).] Arching over; forming
an arch overhead; bending over as an arch.
The word's usual meaning these days is in the sense of "providing the
overall guiding form of." An overarching principle of *true* democracy
is that all persons without exception must have equal voice.
"Involuntary methodology" is pure doublespeak.
-d
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| 288.9 | Liasing dangerously | STAR::RDAVIS | Steady on the sensitive control! | Thu Apr 25 1991 19:10 | 7 |
| From a work plan:
"I will liase with each owner to sort out the logistics...."
My guess is that "liase" means "meet" and is based on "liaison".
Ray
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| 288.10 | | MYCRFT::PARODI | John H. Parodi | Thu Apr 25 1991 20:20 | 11 |
|
Ray,
Liaise is in fact a word (even my Webster's New Collegiate has it) and
it means pretty much what you think it does: to establish liaison.
I felt the same way (i.e., that _can't_ really be a word) when I first
heard the word "disambiguate."
JP
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| 288.11 | English is so cool | STAR::RDAVIS | Steady on the sensitive control! | Thu Apr 25 1991 20:24 | 3 |
| Well, at least it was misspelled. (: >,)
Ray
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| 288.12 | Mid-end systems??? | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Fri Jun 12 1992 13:31 | 2 |
| I am told that now we have not only high-end systems and low-end
systems but also mid-end systems. Can anyone confirm this?
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| 288.13 | end-range-end | RICKS::PHIPPS | | Fri Jun 12 1992 13:44 | 3 |
| I think the term is mid-range as in home-on-the.
m
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| 288.14 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | bad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad. | Thu Jun 25 1992 23:17 | 2 |
| "Mid-endian" refers to the floating-point format of the PDP-11[TM]
series of non-computers.
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| 288.15 | pragma??? | SHALOT::ANDERSON | Stale Vestige of a Bygone Era | Fri Jun 26 1992 17:35 | 4 |
| Does anybody know what a "pragma" is? Couldn't find it any
dictionary on *my* shelf (including DEC's). Ta,
-- Cliff
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| 288.16 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | bad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad. | Sat Jun 27 1992 23:09 | 4 |
| 'Fraid I think a "pragma" is an invention in international computer
programming jargon, not in DECjargon[TM] brand wetware language.
As for what it is, what is an "if"? Or an "undef"?
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| 288.17 | "pragma" will save keystrokes if... | PAOIS::HILL | An immigrant in Paris | Mon Jun 29 1992 08:32 | 6 |
| "pragma" is probably the noun to describe the philosophy based on
practical consequences, rather than on theories.
The rest of us know this philosophy as "pragmatism"
Nick
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| 288.18 | | MYCRFT::PARODI | John H. Parodi | Mon Jun 29 1992 09:36 | 6 |
|
I think 'pragma' is a technical term in the Ada programming language.
Sorry I can't tell you what it means...
JP
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| 288.19 | | SMURF::SMURF::BINDER | Rem ratam agite | Mon Jun 29 1992 14:01 | 4 |
| #pragma is a C preprocessor keyword that is used to specify compiler
features that are implementation-specific.
-dick
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| 288.20 | I don't know where Ada got it from--French philosophy? | TLE::JBISHOP | | Mon Jun 29 1992 15:30 | 14 |
| And ditto in Ada--a "pragma" is a way for the programmer to tell
the compiler some thing about the program which is not part of
the Ada language. VAX Pascal has a similiar feature, but doesn't
use the word "pragma".
The origin is probably the same as "pragmatics", in the sense that
"pragma FOO" means "in practice, use FOO". Or, in more detail,
"Other parts of the source specify meaning but leave unspecified
which of a number of implementations might be used. Since I happen
to know my code will be running in an enviroment with the FOO
characteristic, I'll tell you so, and you'll know which particular
implementation to use."
-John Bishop
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| 288.21 | | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Fri Feb 03 1995 02:49 | 2 |
| I don't have permission to cross-post, but you might like to look
at note 3668 in HUMANE::DIGITAL. They are inventing DECjargon.
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| 288.22 | couriered | RANGER::BRADLEY | Chuck Bradley | Tue Jun 20 1995 19:14 | 3 |
| We were recently warned to submit timecards early so they could be
couriered to someplace.
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