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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f805ceba146bd74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-15 00:04:48 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!darwin.sura.net!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 7 Oct 1994 Date: 13 Oct 1994 20:40:03 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Message-ID: <37knhj$t17@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <1994Oct7.181343.9070@sei.cmu.edu> <37k3bp$2sf@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com Date: 1994-10-13T20:40:03-05:00 List-Id: In article <37k3bp$2sf@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar wrote: >I also vote in favor of retaining 9X! > Other names: Fortran++ Simula++ Modula-10 Pascal-Beyond-Borland B-- (a little better than a C++ :-) A++ (a LOT better than a C++ :-) Ada Warp 2.0 (What th' heck -- IBM can do it!) Or, for you hardcore history buffs... Plankalkul 2000 I'm not so sure Ada 9X is such a great name though. I remember discussing Ada 9X a few years ago to some managers. I looked down and saw one of them in the front row had blithely written: Ada Nynex. *Sigh* Sometimes you'd wish they'd look at the slides :-) -- Proud (and vocal) member of Team Ada! (and Team OS/2) ||This is not your Ada -- Very Cool. Doesn't Suck. || father's Ada For all sorts of interesting Ada tidbits, run the command: ||________________ "finger dweller@starbase.neosoft.com | more" (or e-mail with "finger" as subj.) ObNitPick: Spelling Ada as ADA is like spelling C++ as CPLUSPLUS. :-)