Re: Ada and QNX

[Igor Kovalenko <Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com>]

Now I'm being taught russian, too :(
Just when I thought to scare away some of the devils...

FYI, 'Ada' pronounced in russian way sounds exactly like corresponding
part of 'gates of hell' said in russian, but that was not the point.
What's up with you, lost your humor sense, or what? You should spend
some quality time in Siberia, it is good for mind integrity.

- igor

aek@vib.usr.pu.ru wrote:
> 
> Igor Kovalenko <kovalenko@home.com> wrote:
> >wolves trained to kill treacherous western invaders. It came to me
> there
> >clear as holy shining that Ada must be one of them, being made by DoD.
> >Also, 'Ada' sounds a lot like 'hell' in russian.
> 
> That reminds me an old arictle in a leading Soviet newspaper where the
> author
> described new programming language Ada, which was sponsored by
> Pentagon, as
> "the language of thermonuclear hell". Surely, that author tried to
> point out
> on the same imagined proximity.
>   But in fact, Ada isn't sound like the Russian word for "hell". The
> latter
> has 2 letters, not 3, and it isn't even "ad" - that "ad" would be
> straightforward
> transliteration, but the Russian word for the hell is pronounced as
> "ud" would
> be pronounced in English.
>   Moreover, "Ada" is fully legitimate woman's name in Russia, anf not
> too rare.
> And although in Russian that name is pronounced much more closely to
> the "ud",
> nobody in Russia associates it with the hell.
> 
> Just to prevent misiformation,
> 
> Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
> Saint-Petersburg
> Russia
> 
>