Coprogrammers?

Studying the etymology, one finds:

"Copro" - Excrement, dung
"Grammar" - Set of rules for generating sentences

or

"Writer of shit"

That can't be right, could it?

In article <125dfoi31lfhv28@news.supernews.com>,
HeyBub <heybubNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>Studying the etymology, one finds:
>
>"Copro" - Excrement, dung
>"Grammar" - Set of rules for generating sentences
>
>or
>
>"Writer of shit"
>
>That can't be right, could it?

Sounds about as right as the opposite of 'Progress' being 'Congress', aye.

DD

HeyBub wrote:
> Studying the etymology, one finds:
An imprecise science, that.

> "Copro" - Excrement, dung
> "Grammar" - Set of rules for generating sentences
>
> or
>
> "Writer of shit"
>
More like, "rules for forming correct sentences in shit".  Except that
"grammer" is a common misspelling of the word "grammar".  At least both
are from the Gr.

> That can't be right, could it?
>
Depends.  Is the prefix of the word "Copro-" or "Co-"?  It's probably
the latter, with "programmer" coming from the Latin (and Gr)
"programma", "to write publicly".  Itself a compound word of "pro-"
(forth, in front of) and "graphein" (to write, scratch or draw).  That
last one is the Indo-European root of many words, including a bunch of
Gr, Latin and Germanic forms of the word "grammar".

So, I prefer the meaning, co-pro-gramma, "to mutually write publicly".

Though, we've all had the experience of our code hardening and becoming
more opaque over the years.  If we continue to work on "dinosaurs" we
eventually are confronted with various forms of coprolite.  Not exactly
glamorous (there's that word graphein, again!) work, but sometimes
necessary.

-- Clever "Bet you didn't think I'd answer seriously" Monkey

On Mon, 08 May 2006 12:17:49 -0400, "void * clvrmnky()"
<clvrmnky.invalid@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:

>More like, "rules for forming correct sentences in shit".  Except that
>"grammer" is a common misspelling of the word "grammar".  At least both
>are from the Gr.

Except that nowadays, if you want to have your word have its
traditional meaning, you need to change to its replacement word,
"poop".

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