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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,517611567e1815f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Corey Ashford Subject: Re: Renaming Ada (Re: Java momentum slowing ?) Date: 1999/05/07 Message-ID: <373310B2.E447CD56@rocketmail.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 475241629 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <372b0ec7.28153993@news2.ibm.net> <3728E60E.F789FD8@uq.net.au> <37299369.83779478@news2.ibm.net> <7gdlca$2j5l@drn.newsguy.com> <372f0ed9.104817048@news2.ibm.net> <7ghad5$1mma@drn.newsguy.com> <372d6106.5099983@news2.ibm.net> <7gsk7k$5fr@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <373230E9.E03134E7@epix.net> <37323E13.A5A2AFA7@Botton.com> <7gtvbd$1qo5@drn.newsguy.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Rational Software Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: bob@nospam wrote: [snip] > 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. The problem is that you'd get this sort of comment: "Oh, Z_Edge, yeah... that's just a new, more bloated version of that bloated, designed-by-commitee, military language Ada, hiding under a Gen-X name. Forget about it." I think the real problem is perception. I've found a number of programmers who can't stand Ada. They think it's huge and cumbersome and hard to program. Have they ever programmed in it? No. Have they ever looked at it seriously? No. How do they "know" what they know about it? Hearsay. - Corey