* Ada's birthday @ 2010-12-10 8:15 Dan 2010-12-10 9:52 ` AdaMagica 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Dan @ 2010-12-10 8:15 UTC (permalink / raw) Ada was born December 10, 1815. Ada (Mil-Std-1815) was born December 10, 1980, exactly 30 years ago. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada's birthday 2010-12-10 8:15 Ada's birthday Dan @ 2010-12-10 9:52 ` AdaMagica 2010-12-10 15:28 ` sjw ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: AdaMagica @ 2010-12-10 9:52 UTC (permalink / raw) Congratulation on Your 195th/30th Birthday, Lady Ada Primeval times when Babbage dwelt: not were bit nor byte nor operating system, not hardware below nor above software, abyss abundant, but computer nowhere. And lo, there was Ada, and Ada separated the numbers and split them, in Zero and One did she split them. And there was Zuse, and Zuse created the beast Z1, which fed on the numbers created by Ada, and there was absolute joy among mankind. And mankind created languages that they be able to command the creatures which fed on the numbers, and the numbers were commands and the commands were numbers. And there rose two giants, Fortran and Algol. And the giants were fruitful and multiplied, and sprang from them of languages countless many: APL and PL/1, Simula and Jovial, Lisp and Cobol. And Wirth created Pascal and Modula. And there were Oberon and Occam and Eiffel, C and C++, Prolog and Smalltalk. And there was a great confusion among mankind, and one man did not understand the other man's words, and some did not understand their own words. And DoD spoketh: "Let us restore concord among mankind and create ONE language, that all men speak the same language, in the large as in the small." And there arose Strawman, and Strawman begat Woodenman, and Woodenman begat Tinman, and Tinman begat Ironman. Ironman however begat Steelman. And lo, from him emerged of colours four: Red, Green, Yellow and Blue. And the colours were weighed and found wanting except one. And ANSI spoketh to Green: "Ada shalt be thy name henceforth and servest all mankind in the large as in the small." And DoD spoketh: "Thou shalt not have another language beside Ada." And Ada shone in beauty, and it was the day of the Lord the 10th of December 1980. Copyright 2000 Christoph Grein ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada's birthday 2010-12-10 9:52 ` AdaMagica @ 2010-12-10 15:28 ` sjw 2010-12-10 16:56 ` AdaMagica 2010-12-10 20:18 ` Warren 2010-12-12 14:06 ` Mart van de Wege 2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: sjw @ 2010-12-10 15:28 UTC (permalink / raw) On Dec 10, 9:52 am, AdaMagica <christoph.gr...@eurocopter.com> wrote: > Congratulation > on Your > 195th/30th Birthday, > Lady Ada > > Primeval times when Babbage dwelt: [...] s/spoketh/spake/g http://bible.cc/exodus/20-1.htm -- King James, American Standard, English Revised versions ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada's birthday 2010-12-10 15:28 ` sjw @ 2010-12-10 16:56 ` AdaMagica 0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: AdaMagica @ 2010-12-10 16:56 UTC (permalink / raw) On 10 Dez., 16:28, sjw <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote: > s/spoketh/spake/g Thanx, Simon, I'll update ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada's birthday 2010-12-10 9:52 ` AdaMagica 2010-12-10 15:28 ` sjw @ 2010-12-10 20:18 ` Warren 2010-12-11 16:05 ` AdaMagica 2010-12-12 14:06 ` Mart van de Wege 2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Warren @ 2010-12-10 20:18 UTC (permalink / raw) AdaMagica expounded in news:e8257de0-e4af-4982-a706- 732bf400757d@s5g2000yqm.googlegroups.com: > Congratulation > on Your > 195th/30th Birthday, > Lady Ada > > Primeval times when Babbage dwelt: .. > And there arose Strawman, > and Strawman begat Woodenman, > and Woodenman begat Tinman, > and Tinman begat Ironman. > Ironman however begat Steelman. > > And lo, from him emerged of colours four: > Red, Green, Yellow and Blue. .. > And ANSI spoketh to Green: > "Ada shalt be thy name henceforth > and servest all mankind > in the large as in the small." > > And DoD spoketh: > "Thou shalt not have another language beside Ada." So either Green was begotten female, or Green had a sex change (& named Ada). Warren. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada's birthday 2010-12-10 20:18 ` Warren @ 2010-12-11 16:05 ` AdaMagica 0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: AdaMagica @ 2010-12-11 16:05 UTC (permalink / raw) On 10 Dez., 21:18, Warren <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And there arose Strawman, > > and Strawman begat Woodenman, > > and Woodenman begat Tinman, > > and Tinman begat Ironman. > > Ironman however begat Steelman. > > > And lo, from him emerged of colours four: > > Red, Green, Yellow and Blue. > .. > > And ANSI spoketh to Green: > > "Ada shalt be thy name henceforth > > So either Green was begotten female, > or Green had a sex change (& named Ada). Hm, is there anything said about coloured sex? That would perhaps be politically incorrect;-) Hm, and there's nothing said at all about women involved in the genealogy (what a pity)... ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada's birthday 2010-12-10 9:52 ` AdaMagica 2010-12-10 15:28 ` sjw 2010-12-10 20:18 ` Warren @ 2010-12-12 14:06 ` Mart van de Wege 2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Mart van de Wege @ 2010-12-12 14:06 UTC (permalink / raw) AdaMagica <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com> writes: > Congratulation > on Your > 195th/30th Birthday, > Lady Ada > > Primeval times when Babbage dwelt: > not were bit nor byte I would think that 'neither bit nor byte' would scan a little better. 'Not were' sounds a bit weird to my ears. Then again, I'm not a native speaker, however good my English may be. > nor operating system, > not hardware below > nor above software, > abyss abundant, > but computer nowhere. Mart -- "We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes." --- AJS, quoting an uncertain source. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
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