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From: jmarten@ibm.net (Jean-Marten Marchi)
Subject: Re: Renaming Ada (Re: Java momentum slowing ?)
Date: 1999/05/10
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On Thu, 06 May 1999 21:12:51 -0400, David Botton <David@Botton.com>
wrote:

>If there was a Delphi style system put together with Ada in its belly, I
>think that a name change like Pascal -> Delphi, might work.
>
>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 ++.
>
>David Botton
>
>
>Matthew Whiting wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe Ada should be renamed ... Java++  :-)

I don't think naming it with Java something is a very good idea since
Java will fail. Avoid Java as much as you could. 

Maybe GNAT ++ ? so you could surf on the Linux Wave. And this wave is
the good one.