From: munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!usenet@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Dunstan,,2285592,)
Subject: Re: Its ADA not Ada after all
Date: 1 May 93 09:49:47 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1rth3r$a39@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au> (raw)
>From article <C69GJ6.8Js@crdnns.crd.ge.com>, by duncan@sunup.NoSubdomain.NoDom
ain (Art Duncan):
> |> Remember, "Ada" is a proper name, while FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC are
> |> acronyms. (What does that make "C"?)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> The successor of "B".
>
Or, as we say in Ada:
Language'succ('B')
:-)
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1993-05-01 9:49 Andrew Dunstan,,2285592, [this message]
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1993-05-07 13:25 Its ADA not Ada after all Bjarne Stroustrup
1993-04-29 21:42 David Moore
1993-04-29 19:52 Art Duncan
1993-04-29 16:45 Eric H Seale
1993-04-29 15:10 Robert Kitzberger
1993-04-29 14:15 David Emery
1993-04-29 2:09 Alex Blakemore
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