Re: OT:GNAT (Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?)

[comar@act-europe.fr (Cyrille Comar)]

> As far as I understand, there was a person, inside the team of the initial
> creators of GNAT, at the French side, Kirille Comar (or Komar, it doesn't mean
> for the issue). And "comar" (and also "komar") in Russian transliteration
> As far as I understand, there was a person, inside the team of the
> initial creators of GNAT, at the French side, Kirille Comar (or
> Komar, it doesn't mean for the issue). And "comar" (and also
> "komar") in Russian transliteration means exactly "gnat". Assuming
> that Russian nationality of this person (his first name suggests
> that), one may guess that the source of the name "GNAT" for the
> compiler was from there. ... Hm, I hope nobody will annoyed by this
> beautiful hypothesis -:)

This is a funny hypothesis but it is not an accurate one :-( I joined
the GNAT project relatively early on (in 1993) but the name of the
project had already been settled for a long time.  When I joined I
didn't have the foggiest idea of what GNAT meant in English and when I
discovered it, I did indeed have the feeling of being predestined for
the job;-)

Concerning my nationality, once again I am sorry to disappoint you but
it is very French and for some time already. We have a family tale
relating that our family would have migrated from Poland with Marie
Leszczinska when she married Louis XV, a French King from the early
18th century... but this is at least 10 generations back and the family
tree becomes fuzzy before that...

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