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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ec264956a9d7e36a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-12 17:54:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp.abs.net!dca6-feed2.news.digex.net!intermedia!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!feed1.newsreader.com!news.atl.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Richard Riehle Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Restrictions on compilers for Microsoft's .NET project Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:00:09 -0800 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3C69C8A9.4304293A@adaworks.com> References: <2sk5nInklHl1@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3C681C25.6356CAF3@west.raytheon.com> <5ee5b646.0202111821.4dba9889@posting.google.com> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 9e.fc.c5.a9 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 13 Feb 2002 01:53:08 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19957 Date: 2002-02-13T01:53:08+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <5ee5b646.0202111821.4dba9889@posting.google.com>, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes: > > > This seems to me a tempest in a teapot (nice english phrase > > meaning Much Ado About Nothing (entertating Shakespeare > > title, meaning a lot of fuss about a small point)). > > The phrase is quite familiar to me with a non-classical US education. It is hilarious when one understands the slang meaning of "nothing" during Shakespeare's time. Sorry, cannot print it here for this family audience. You will need to research it on your own. Richard Riehle