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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This cooperative project has resulted in several different programs on different plantforms
Annix Website Development – Different Plantforms –
But it will not be smart programming since on different plantforms the size of integers varies from 2 to 4
So I can develop scripts on one machine and have it go out to run test on 5 more machines on different plantforms.
It is already a figure of speech to see Windows vs. UNIX vs. Apple OS as “platformsâ€: seeing them as different lifeforms, even brachiating lifeforms, doesn’t seem that far out to me.
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Which being said, WTF typoing is quite possibly enough to explain most if not all instances.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Although these occurrences may simply be typos, one other explanation is that a “plantform” is a place where one plants his feet.
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This feels like something of a reach to me. Insertion of n is so common in English—especially when the result is an element identical with a real word—that I’d bet that a lot of instances could be explained by that tendency alone. And I have a lot of trouble imagining that anyone else would imagine computer platforms as “plantforms.”
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