John Boy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 8:10 pmFor me the highlights of the game: LT on writ of certiori,
Not if you spelled/pronounced it that way.
Would just "cert" have been accepted for certiorari? I'm not sure I would have risked bungling the pronunciation of the full word, but I knew it was a "writ of cert," which is a pretty common phrasing of it.
In "The Brethren," Bob Woodward has the SC Justices always referring to it as "granting cert," and only uses the full word a couple of times. But I'm thinking the shortened version would probably not be accepted, but would get an opportunity for expansion instead of an outright neg.
I see no reason such a commonly used abbreviation wouldn't be accepted, though I would hope anybody who knew it would know the full word, too. It's no harder to pronounce than Saoirse Ronan...
To my shame, I was thrown by the part about "send[ing] up the records." That's definitely the meaning, but it's understood more simply to be a decision to review a case. I ended up with writ of mandamus, which orders a lower court to take an action...
LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:40 am
Kind of strange that Johann Bernoulli was answered but not Blaise Pascal. Computer language should have even been a giveaway.
If there'd been room in the fourth podium poll, I'd have added a box for "I have programmed in Pascal".
I was a little surprised at the wording of the Bernoulli Principle clue. Any decent sailor can tell you it works horizontally as well as vertically.
As for programming experiences: BASIC, programmable Casio calculater (which taught me efficient programming), Pascal, studied some C++ but never used it, VBA.
Pascal was instaget, though I’ve never programmed in it. Easily well over half a million lines of code in FORTRAN, C, C++, some Ada, some Perl, tons of Python, Matlab. Mostly written using XEmacs, which I vastly preferred to RMS-Emacs, but XEmacs is basically dead, so I’m moving to VS Code.
Languages I've written programs in that I can remember (all of them a very long time ago): BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, apl, Lisp, and a bunch of Excel macros.