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Wise man vs. wise guy - English Language Usage Stack Exchange For me, a 'Guy' is an effigy of Guido Fawkes, Roman Catholic conspirator at the centre of the Gunpowder Plot, to blow up Parliament, of 1605 Every 5th November children throw his effigy on bonfires and celebrate with firworks
etymology - Origin reason for the hit by a bus phrase - English . . . They wanted to know if Python would survive if Guido disappeared This is an important issue for businesses that may be considering the use of Python in a product "Guido" is Guido van Rossum, the inventor and still leader of Python language development Note that "bus" here is presented as one of a number of possible tragic scenarios
What are the differences between manual, guide and instruction? There is considerable overlap among the three, and to some extent they can be interchangeable They can be coupled together or with other terms, as in instruction manual or reference guide In addition, there are a number of similar terms like handbook, guidebook, primer, or vade mecum Manual refers specifically to a reference document which provides detailed information about operation and
phrase meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Finding a patron is clearly a good and advantageous thing ("will turn out well") but Machiavelli advises Guido to benefit from patronage by studying, or to study so as to merit and benefit from patronage It is not clear from the text which of these is intended
As a mean (s?) for - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What's more correct, the plural or singular use of "mean" in the following phrases: As a means for As a mean for My intuition is the singular, the second one, since we have a singular "a" there But
at line vs in line - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I think there are three usages here One can talk about a line of code as one entity, for example the "code at line ten" One can talk about a fragment of code that spans many lines, for example "the code at (or between, or from to ) lines 5-10" Finally, one can talk about a fragment of code within a line, for example "the object instantiation with a null constructor, which is found in
On the origins of the use of key or clavis to refer to the keys of . . . Probably this is based on a translation of Latin clavis "key," used by Guido for "lowest tone of a scale," or French clef (see clef; also see keynote) Sense of "mechanism on a musical instrument operated by the player's fingers" is from c 1500, probably also suggested by uses of clavis OED says this use "appears to be confined to English "