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* Origin of Pragma
@ 1989-07-06 12:14 Rick Conn
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From: Rick Conn @ 1989-07-06 12:14 UTC (permalink / raw)


Section 2.1 of the "Rationale for the Design of the Ada Programming Language"
states that the word "pragma" is from the Greek word meaning action, and
pragmas are used to direct the actions of an Ada compiler.

	Rick
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