Re: ADA to C converter, the dream ?

[Simon Johnston <skj@ACM.ORG>]

> T.E.D. says
>
> "I feel the momentum for changing Gnat's name building..."
>
> Well, we don't :-) We have no intention of changing the name.
>
> And in any case, to think that a mere name change will prevent people
> having misconceptions is, I am afraid, unrealistic :-)
>
> Also, we prefer to still capitalize it as GNAT :-)
>
> We discussed having a competition to determine the best after the fact
> acronym for GNAT (so far we are rather partial to the "Great New Ada
> Technology" suggestion :-)

I like GNAT, it is simple, easy to remember and *doesn't* need to mean
anything! (if it did have to then this latest suggestion is fine by me). If
this thing come to a vote I will have to side with the keep GNAT campaign.


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