Since this is a discussion about a specific crossword puzzle the right answer
has to fit with any words coming in from the other direction or it gets cross.
I thought the clue hinted it started with C and ended with R and that the
languages were chosen for no reason other than that they helped make a clue. It
would otherwise be equally valid to choose COBOL and RUST. This has nothing
specific about R, or C, for that matter. Anyone who writes code for computers in
any language can be called a CODER.
But since CODES and CODER and many other words like PRINT may make sense, it
still can be necessary to have it fit the crossword puzzle. Since it mentioned R
and not it's cousin S, I think CODER is more likely the answer than CODES.
Not that it changes our lives in the slightest way. I suspect people who are
dedicated cruciverbalists need not know anything about the C and R languages or
even programming in general. They are supposed to figure out it is an ODE
between C and R.
-----Original Message-----
From: R-help <r-help-bounces at r-project.org> On Behalf Of Olivier
Crouzet
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2024 9:51 AM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] [off-topic] crossword
Thank you all for the helpful and enlightening comments. One question
though, isn't "say" a synonym in oral forms of american english
for
"for example"? Which would translate to:
> Writes in C or R, [for example].
which would involve that C and R are possible examples of the usage
contexts considered here in which someone would "write"?
This would then make perfect sense to me for the proposed answer:
"codes".
Yours.
Olivier.
On Fri, 13 Dec 2024
08:02:32 +0000 CALUM POLWART <polc1410 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well to complicate things, I don't think RULES is the answer.
>
> This is a cryptic crossword clue. They usually contain the answer
> twice (well... Cryptically!!)
>
> Writes in C or R, say.
>
> I think the answer is CODER
>
> If you look up the definition of say in the dictionary one option is:
>
>
>
> 1. give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with
> authority (verb)
>
>
> That's the simple part of the clue. (Notice the comma cryptic clues
> have two parts giving the "same" answer)
>
> The more complex part I think is that and 'ode' (a poem that is
> written like it is said or something) is written in between C and R
> giving C ODE R,
>
> ...
>
>
> Very happy to be corrected...
>
>
> (Oh and as a third part a coder writes in C or R... I hope the
> JavaScript kids are listening ;-) )
>
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, 04:26 Ebert,Timothy Aaron, <tebert at ufl.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > I do not understand the question and I do not understand the answer.
> > Possibly one confounds the other.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Hodgess Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2024 11:56 AM
> > To: Bill Dunlap <williamwdunlap at gmail.com>
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> > Subject: Re: [R] [off-topic] crossword
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> > RULES!
> >
> >
> > Erin Hodgess, PhD
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> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 9:42?AM Bill Dunlap
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> >
> > > The New York Times crossword this morning had the clue (51 down,
5
> > > letters) "Writes in C or R, say".
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