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From: ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.lang.ada
Subject: Language Naming Contest
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Date: 9 Feb 90 14:05:43 GMT
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A number of people where I work feel that a naming contest is in order
for the next, presumably object oriented version of the Ada programming
language.  The name "Add 1 to Cobol" has been proposed for the OO
version of Cobol, which will presumably be out and in use long before
the new Ada version, and it strikes me as a kind of a shame for
anything, much less the new, modern, foreward-looking answer to all of
mankind's computing needs, to be thus outdone by the second oldest
language out there.

While the name "Ada-9x" is understandable in a way ("Watch the
government spend 9 times as much time and money and take nine times as
long for everything they ever do while the rest of the world
standardizes on C and C++"), I feel that Ada Lovelace, whore though ever
she might have been, never really did anything to deserve having a
government programming language named after her.

I would suggest that, if a proper name is still wanted for the language,
that the name be chosen as that of some person or organization most
notable for swindling his/her/its government;  since the names "Wang"
and "Unisys" are already taken, I would suggest the name "Potempkin".
Any other ideas?

Ted Holden
HTE