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| From | Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C |
| Date | 2017-04-04 07:00 +0100 |
| Organization | Fix this later |
| Message-ID | <obvck5$auf$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 03/04/17 23:38, Robert Wessel wrote: <snip> > > I remember the first time I was talking to some (IBM) mainframe users > in Europe, and they were telling us something about their experience > with "kicks"? Eh? What now? For whatever reason, it's almost > universal to call CICS that outside the US, and almost universal to > call it cee-eye-cee-ess in the US. Concur. I never heard it pronounced in any other way than "kicks" by British programmers, but US programmers (and you do occasionally get them in Rightpondia) invariably pronounced each letter separately. > Also, we didn't generally use the many less-than-respectful nicknames > for IBM in front of IBMers either, so you may have been sheltered on > that front. In Rightpondia at least, employees of Andersen Consulting were often called "androids". Whether it was because Andersen could identify and reject people with personalities at the hiring stage, or whether their employees just hid those personalities very, very carefully, I don't know, but "android" was a common term of art. Or "droid" for short. (Star Wars related nicknames were not particularly unusual at the time.) They are typically of medium height, medium weight, medium build, and... well, they're just generally medium, and about as colourful as a pavement (sidewalk). In the late 1990s, I was working at MumbleCo, alongside a few MumbleCo employees, several other independent contractors, and a whole bunch of "droids". I should point out here that I'm rather taller than average, and also that I have never been a great fan of the barber, as a result of which I had acquired my own SW nickname. One day, there was a technical disagreement between myself and one of the Andersen people, which was resolved in my favour by the project manager. The Andersen chap complained that this was always the way these arguments seemed to go. One of my fellow indies immediately responded with: "That's because droids don't rip people's arms out when they lose. Wookies have been known to do that." -- Richard Heathfield Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 Sig line 4 vacant - apply within
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How to create a 128 bit type in C acidlategamer@gmail.com - 2017-03-28 08:26 -0700
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-28 16:42 +0100
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C acidlategamer@gmail.com - 2017-03-28 09:15 -0700
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-28 19:15 +0100
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Norbert_Paul <norbertpauls_spambin@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-28 17:44 +0200
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-28 16:29 +0000
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-03-28 10:52 -0700
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2017-03-28 17:55 +0000
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-28 20:17 +0200
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-28 21:17 +0200
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-28 18:09 +0000
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-28 19:52 +0200
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-28 18:11 +0000
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-28 19:21 +0100
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-28 20:29 +0200
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-28 18:55 +0000
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-28 21:04 +0200
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-03-28 12:13 -0700
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-28 16:14 -0500
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-29 13:13 +0000
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-30 00:12 -0500
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-30 13:36 +0000
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-30 12:41 -0500
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-30 17:55 +0000
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-30 17:59 +0000
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-04-01 00:42 -0500
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-04-03 13:37 +0000
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-04-03 17:38 -0500
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-04-03 17:49 -0500
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-04-03 17:43 -0700
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-04-03 20:39 -0500
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-04-04 07:00 +0100
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-28 20:28 +0200
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-28 16:37 -0500
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-28 23:56 +0200
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-28 18:36 -0500
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-29 01:43 +0200
Re: English grammar, nonrestrictive clause Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-03-31 21:24 +0200
Re: English grammar, nonrestrictive clause jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-31 21:51 +0200
Re: English grammar, nonrestrictive clause Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-04-01 12:34 +0100
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-03-28 15:11 -0700
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-28 19:30 -0500
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-29 13:19 +0000
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-03-29 14:42 +0100
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-29 15:12 +0000
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-30 00:26 -0500
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-30 00:42 -0500
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-28 11:40 -0700
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-28 11:40 -0700
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-28 20:48 +0200
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-28 12:05 -0700
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-03-28 20:13 +0100
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-28 21:43 +0200
Re: Thunderbird charset Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-03-31 21:38 +0200
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-28 21:19 +0200
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-03-28 18:15 +0100
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2017-03-28 10:27 -0700
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-03-28 14:16 -0700
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-03-28 17:38 -0700
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-03-30 05:19 -0700
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-03-30 05:32 -0700
Re: How to create a 128 bit type in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-03-30 05:40 -0700
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