Nascent = becoming born?
Lilac scent = perfume ???
- Loren P Meissner
PS - As I recall, the word "obsolescent" was NOT introduced to Fortran by
J3 - I think it came down from higher levels in ANSI. There was something
about an official process whereby features could be removed from a Standard,
and they said you can declare them obsolescent [if you can spell it] for at
least one revision of the Standard, and then in a later revision you can
leave them in the text but declare them obsolete, and finally after nobody
cares any more you can leave them out of the Standard altogether.
Whoever invented that policy didn't know much about the evolution of
applications programs.
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Other "-escent" words:
Crescent: growing
Originally referred to the phase of the
just-past-new
moon, later applied to its shape.
Decrescent: shrinking
An obsolete term for the phase of the moon between
the
last quarter and the new moon. It really ticks me
off
to see it described as a "waning crescent" --
literally
an oxymoron.
Luminescent: emitting light
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