elmer

The negative connotation came from early Bugs Bunny cartoons where he applies the name sarcastically to Elmer Fudd.

He was using it sarcastically when referring to Elmer Fudd (one of the more inept hunters in the history of film).

Bugs Bunny taunted Elmer Fudd, a stupid an incompetent hunter that failed to catch Bugs Bunny, by calling him a Nimrod.

Bungs Bunny called Elmer Fudd a 'Nimrod' in a cartoon that made the connection of hunter to really dimwitted or stupid person.

But, getting people to that point is going to require a lot of considerations to ease the JavaScripter -> Elmer -> Haskeller transformation.

Maybe back in the perkin elmer days, these days they're up to 4gb, constrained only by the various linkers, file size and address spaces available...

It left me with the impression that Elmer was the beginning and end of that little misadventure and that he was one of a kind.

He was writing firmware for Perkin Elmer chip steppers.

I outright reject other people's ridiculous theories that the rabbit would act like Bugs Bunny and that I would act like Elmer Fudd.

Who will defend us from Super Elmer Fudd?

Nimrod is traditionally the name of a mighty hunter so it made sense for Bugs to call Elmer that to show how far from a mighty hunter he was.

While American-made computers, cars, steel and tools struggle against foreign competition, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Mickey Mouse are cleaning up.

I mean, you could make a "wrench" out of popsicle sticks and Elmer's, but it probably wouldn't work out so well for any real tightening.

The header says "The GNU C Library" and then in big letters "By: Elmer Landaverde".

But in the US, due to the ironic use of the name by Bugs Bunny to address Elmer Fudd, we tend to associate "Nimrod" with incompetence and gullibility.

(Harry Elmer Barnes, "Hiroshima: Assault on a Beaten Foe", National Review, 10 May 1958) So there is no reason to doubt it.

To make it even more comical, several of those posts are from serious Apple boosters (Philip Elmer-DeWitt might as well wear pom-poms while he writes about Apple).

Also, and I've been living in Poland for my whole live (33 years now), must have met or read about tens of thousands of people by now, and have never encountered anyone named Elmer.

I remember a prof explaining in the clean room over one of our Perkin-Elmer lithography stations that it takes years to redesign the systems for new wavelengths; the application's precision demands that each optical system is specifically engineered and tailored to that wavelength.