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Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c
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Dave Dodge |
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Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c |
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Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:23:11 -0400 |
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:38:11PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Thursday 20 September 2007 9:35:05 pm Gregg Reynolds wrote:
> > On 9/20/07, Rob Landley <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > means is "doesn't move", same root as stasis.
> >
> > Mmm, more like "stands", which isn't quite the same.
>
> *shrug* My last etymology course was in 1987, I'm not interested in arguing
> with you.
OT: (since I have OED handy): "static" comes from Latin staticus, from
the Greek ({sigma}{tau}{alpha}{tau}{iota}{kappa}{goacu}{fsigma})
"causing to stand" and also pertaining to [skill in] weighing. It's
heavily overloaded even in English; OED has 7 definitions for it just
as an adjective. Earliest quotations OED has are mid-1600s, mostly to
do with weighing things though there's a rare usage describing someone
as having a stable mental condition. Its use in regard to
electricity, and in physics as the opposite of "dynamic", dates from
the mid-1800s.
-Dave Dodge
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, (continued)
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Gregg Reynolds, 2007/09/20
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Rob Landley, 2007/09/20
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Gregg Reynolds, 2007/09/20
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Rob Landley, 2007/09/20
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Gregg Reynolds, 2007/09/20
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Rob Landley, 2007/09/21
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c,
Dave Dodge <=
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Rob Landley, 2007/09/21
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Peter Lund, 2007/09/21
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Gregg Reynolds, 2007/09/21
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Rob Landley, 2007/09/21
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Peter Lund, 2007/09/21
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Dave Dodge, 2007/09/21
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Rob Landley, 2007/09/22
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Dave Dodge, 2007/09/25
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Rob Landley, 2007/09/26
- Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c, Dave Dodge, 2007/09/26