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,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5f8432149982f35e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fca1b,5f8432149982f35e X-Google-Attributes: gidfca1b,public From: Igor Kovalenko Subject: Re: Ada and QNX Date: 2000/10/17 Message-ID: <39ECAD59.20C486B@motorola.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 682594776 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8r1i82$ri3$1@kujawiak.man.lodz.pl> <8r5pe5$h70$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8FCDFD7EEnopenopena@63.209.170.206> <39EA6305.CD5CFE1F@ix.netcom.com> <39EA9161.6469DDE2@home.com> <8sf9p0$kpg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39EB42B1.A14BDCB6@motorola.com> <8sg733$fe2$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39EBDC99.9A4252F2@home.com> <8si6u2$3lt$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: ru,en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: postmaster@mot.com X-Trace: schbbs.mot.com 971812044 4011 145.1.195.34 (17 Oct 2000 19:47:24 GMT) Organization: Motorola iDEN Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Oct 2000 19:47:24 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.os.qnx Date: 2000-10-17T19:47:24+00:00 List-Id: 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 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 > >