Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: VMS Date: 15 Jun 2025 18:49:31 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <102ka4k$9umt$2@dont-email.me> <87tt4i9nw5.fsf@eder.anydns.info> <102l0h9$fjtb$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net XTNspcK8JDUianGjmzPUTwIG1pLQXB1+0R4UOysjjNouBlQLI3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wbheB3GxqDFDjp7t5dIIyS48dQk= sha256:2rRnB6xAcXzpqXuEunRYoNDiDWuNKvzy4Rn3HYRYJDg= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:68811 On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:32:37 -0400, c186282 wrote: > On 6/14/25 8:57 PM, rbowman wrote: >> On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:27:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> The slight irony is that the name “Rust” does not come from the >>> well-known redox reaction that iron undergoes with water in the >>> presence of oxygen (catalyzed by a little bit of polar contaminants >>> such as common salt), but from the name of a kind of fungus. >> >> Even more ironical, rust is a pathogen that the Romans sacrificed a dog >> in hopes of preventing, >> >> https://penelope.uchicago.edu/encyclopaedia_romana/calendar/ robigalia.html > > Hmmmmmmmm ... in THEORY a dose of iron-containing hemoglobin in the > vicinity COULD delay rusting ... afaik wheat rust has nothing to do with iron. Odd to name your programming language after a fungus that has been destroying crops for millennia.