From: Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>
Subject: Re: When will Ada big moment arrive? what is missing?
Date: 1999/05/28
Date: 1999-05-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <374ED920.4FD22EC0@pwfl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ik5th$cvt$1@front1.grolier.fr
Thierry Lelegard wrote:
> Hum, writing the next great _American_ OS in a language
> which was designed by a _French_ guy, named after an _English_
> woman... Do you think that you can beat the _Finnish_ OS named
> Linux?
>
Well, in trying to make a play on "The Great American Novel" which
everyone wants to write upon retiring from the rat race, I guess I was
being a little insensitive to the international quality of Ada. Pardon
my ethnocentricism ;-)
So is there some other figure of speech we could abuse in this context?
MDC
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-26 0:00 When will Ada big moment arrive? what is missing? Chris
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-26 0:00 ` dbotton
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Thierry Lelegard
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
1999-05-28 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-01 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-01 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-05-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-27 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-27 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-05-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-26 0:00 ` dennison
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