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,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4d85dafcfa1dcde6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-09 06:54:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CDA7D48.EB507B6A@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT:GNAT (Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?) References: <9Y1A8.25350$D%5.3478@sccrnsc01> <5ee5b646.0205061352.456c075a@posting.google.com> <3cd7b506.11293318@news.demon.co.uk> <5ee5b646.0205071834.3b5c959@posting.google.com> <3cda2fc8.1578790@news.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 08:44:40 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1020951883 151.168.144.162 (Thu, 09 May 2002 09:44:43 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 09:44:43 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23764 Date: 2002-05-09T08:44:40-05:00 List-Id: > >When I saw the name at first on 1994, I, as a programmer, > >thought it should be an acronym, irrelevant to insects. > > Err - it *is* an acronym, for GNU Ada Translator. Actually GNU NYU Ada Translator. G N A T but if the creators want to declare a new interpretation, I won't argue. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau