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Re:Adding ANSI C11 C compiler to D so it can import and comp... by froh on Monday May 10, 2021 @02:37AM (#27103323)
I agree.

to bystanders, odd autocorrect: it's marshalling. marshalling data. although fight and war are indeed also appropriate associations for binary data exchange (struct conversions) between languages.

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Re:Adding ANSI C11 C compiler to D so it can import and comp... by dmurray on Monday May 10, 2021 @06:56AM (#27104598)
TIL martial and marshal are unrelated etymologically, though marshalling data is by analogy with marshalling troops, and related to the military office.

Marshal = mariscalcus = "horse servant", compare mare and seneschal. Martial = from Mars, god of war.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/marshal

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Re:Adding ANSI C11 C compiler to D so it can import and comp... by froh on Monday May 10, 2021 @09:52AM (#27105973)
TIL: marshalling == ceremonial arrangement and management of a gathering

these CS gals of olde really had a hand for naming :-)

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Re:Adding ANSI C11 C compiler to D so it can import and comp... by watersb on Monday May 10, 2021 @04:29AM (#27103853)
I often court martial my data.

Not mocking the spelling of the previous post; it's a strange term anyway and in this instance either spelling works.

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