From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4d85dafcfa1dcde6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-10 03:26:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: comar@act-europe.fr (Cyrille Comar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT:GNAT (Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?) Date: 10 May 2002 03:26:19 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <1cf9fecf.0205100226.696937e8@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.157.227.167 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1021026379 13758 127.0.0.1 (10 May 2002 10:26:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 May 2002 10:26:19 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23829 Date: 2002-05-10T10:26:19+00:00 List-Id: > 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... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cyrille Comar Email: comar@act-europe.fr ACT Europe Phone: +33 1 4970 6716 8 rue de Milan Fax: +33 1 4970 0552 75009, France www: http://www.act-europe.fr