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

Joukj joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl
Mon Apr 11 03:44:01 EDT 2022


Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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. :-)
>>>
>>> Simon.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
> 

As I know it:
   Tuesday (in Dutch dinsdag) is called after Tyr (also called 
Thingsus). He was indeed a god of war

   Thursday (in Dutch donderdag) is called after Donar (also called 
Thor) He is the god of thunder.


         Jouk



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