[Info-vax] First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

[Rich Alderson]

Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:

> On 4/9/22 17:54, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2022-04-09 kl. 21:12, skrev Simon Clubley:
>>> Just a bit of fun.

>>> When do you think the native x86-64 VMS compilers will ship ?

>>> For me:

>>> For COBOL and Fortran: 12-Jul-2022

>>> For BASIC: 11-Oct-2022

>>> For C/C++: 17-May-2022

>>> These are all Tuesday, because as we all know, everything happens on
>>> a Tuesday. :-)

>> Well, as I'm sure that everyone knows very well, the name Tuesday
>> goes back to the nordic god Tyr (Norwegian) or Tor (Swedish).
>> That was the god of war. Seems appropriate in our current time...

> I believe that was Thursday.

>> I think I'd rather just wait for the actual release... :-)

> As everyone will.

There are two gods in question here, Germanic *Tiwaz and *Thonar.  In English,
the latter comes to us as the common noun _thunder_, the former in the day of
the week name Tuesday.  In Old Norse, we get Tyr and Thorr; in German we get
Donner and the dialectal day name Ziestag [tsi:stak].

The interesting thing about *Tiwaz is that this is the Germanic form of the
name of the sky Father god:  Indo-European *Dye:us/*Diwos, also found in
Sanskrit Dyaus Pitar, Greek Ze~u pater, Latin Iu:piter ~ Iuppiter.  So in the
Germanic cultures he was demoted to a watchman over a bridge into the heavens
from being the incarnation of the heavens.

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