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From: "P.S. Norby" <psnorby@cacd.rockwell.com>
Subject: Re: Renaming Ada (Re: Java momentum slowing ?)
Date: 1999/05/07
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bob@nospam wrote:
> 
> In article <37323E13.A5A2AFA7@Botton.com>, David says...
> >
> 
> >Java++ would just get you an entrance to the court room where you would
> >have Sun on one side for the Java name and MS on the other for the ++.
> >
> 
> good point. someone told me also that MS has a pending patent on "++".
> 

Does that mean all the C programmers will have to go back and remove the
++ operator from all their code?  ;-)

> How about we rename Ada to "COOL" before MS graps that name also? I
> hear MS is working on this new language and they want to call it
> COOL, or COOL++.
> 
> It seems that all the good and cool and zappy and modern names for computer
> languages has been taken allready by different languages.
> 
> I really think that the biggest blunder the Ada95 team did was not
> to rename Ada to something completely different and wild than the
> generic name 'Ada' (for crying out loud, 'Ada' is a name of a person
> who lived more than 130 years ago!, it is not a modern name! what is so
> cool about a name such as 'Ada'? it has the letter 'a' repated 2 times
> in a 3 letters name!! not only that, there is no 'X' or 'Z' or '+' or 'C' or
> 'J' or any of the eye catching letters in the name.
> 
> They had the chance to do it then, and they blew it, and we are now
> all paying for that positional mistake and will continue to do so.
> 
> Bob

If you do a search on the net for Ada software jobs, you will also turn
up
  1) jobs involving radar
  2) jobs in Ada, OK
  3) jobs where the employer complies with the Americans with
Disabilities Act

How about "Zyzyx"?  "Dweezl"?  Some one suggested "Tucker".  I like
that.  (Saw the movie.)

-- 
P.S. Norby

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        --  Scott Adams

"No excuses.  No embarrassment.  No apologies...
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