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Thaddy

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Niklaus Wirth award comedy capers
« on: December 30, 2025, 03:06:25 pm »
https://www.pascalcongress.com/mvcs_winers.html

I hope one of you can fix that! Horrible spelling mistake.

Winers <> winners. Winer is an insult.

This will otherwise be open to unjustified opiniation.

(Although Scott Franco should have won imho, Marco Cantu is certainly worthy of such a reward)

A really painful spelling mistake.

I know the organizers visit this forum. FIX IT! Not yesterday, but NOW! At least in 2025.

 >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:D >:D >:D >:( >:( >:( >:(

I will remove this post when this is fixed.

One of the words that won't get caught by a spelling corrector, because both words exist.
« Last Edit: December 30, 2025, 03:22:52 pm by Thaddy »
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If Europe sells their USA bonds the USD will collapse. Europe can affort that given average state debts. The USA can't affort that. Just an advice...

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Re: Niklaus Wirth award comedy capers
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2025, 05:47:21 pm »
Quote from: Thaddy on December 30, 2025, 03:06:25 pm
[…] Winer is an insult. […] One of the words that won't get caught by a spelling corrector, because both words exist.
You were thinking of whiner (≈ crybaby). A winer is someone who drinks wine habitually, nothing inherently offensive about that, yet still a spelling mistake.
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Re: Niklaus Wirth award comedy capers
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2025, 05:49:27 pm »
Quote from: Kays on December 30, 2025, 05:47:21 pm
Quote from: Thaddy on December 30, 2025, 03:06:25 pm
[…] Winer is an insult. […] One of the words that won't get caught by a spelling corrector, because both words exist.
You were thinking of whiner (≈ crybaby). A winer is someone who drinks wine habitually, nothing inherently offensive about that, yet still a spelling mistake.

Who knows. Maybe they meant "weiner"...

https://xkcd.com/386/
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Re: Niklaus Wirth award comedy capers
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2025, 11:14:42 pm »
Or wiener.
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Re: Niklaus Wirth award comedy capers
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2025, 02:06:56 am »
Also the menu: "IPC 2026 Resgistration"

Also on the research page lol If you are a reserarcher or a

I thought i saw one other.
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Re: Niklaus Wirth award comedy capers
« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2025, 06:30:11 am »
Quote from: Tony Stone on December 31, 2025, 02:06:56 am
I thought i saw one other.

Maybe the information shown about the page ? Hover your mouse over the page's tab and you will see "Most Valious Contributor ....". Is that intended to be "Valuable" ? Cannot think of anything else appropriate.

Its also the very first page listing an award winner I have seen that does not contain a sentence or more about that winner's achievements.

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