Re: disassembler

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Monday, October 14, 2013, Hisham  wrote:
> On 14 October 2013 17:08, Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Putting my nit-picking hat on .. Fortran (or FORTRAN) isn't an acronym, it's a portmanteau
>
> No, it's not. It's a syllabic abbreviation of "Formula Translating System":
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabic_abbreviation#Syllabic_abbreviation
>
> A strange phenomenon happened in Wikipedia where users started calling
> every combination of words a portmanteau and ended up popularizing
> this specific term, which led to a snowball effect (more people aware
> of this word, who started using it in even more places). The
> "portmanteau" effect has been a minor annoyance of mine for years, and
> it even ended up on xkcd: http://xkcd.com/739/
>
> -- Hisham

The Golden Braid strikes again: even pedantic-ery is recursive.

-Andrew