Re: OT:GNAT (Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?)

[Ed Falis <efalis@attbi.com>]

Alexandre E. Kopilovitch wrote:
> Toshitaka Kumano <kumano@cl.cilas.net> wrote:
> 
>>I always wonder why the great compiler has such a misleading name :-)
> 
> 
> As far as I understand, there was a person, inside the team of the initial
> creators of GNAT, at the French side, Kirille Comar (or Komar, it doesn't mean
> for the issue). And "comar" (and also "komar") in Russian transliteration
> means exactly "gnat". Assuming that Russian nationality of this person (his
> first name suggests that), one may guess that the source of the name "GNAT" for
> the compiler was from there. ... Hm, I hope nobody will annoyed by this beautiful
> hypothesis -:)

Ah well, Cyrille is thoroughly French.  But hypotheses are fun, no?

So, in that vein, perhaps GNAT was a fly in the ointment for established 
vendors (one of whom I worked for at the time).  ;-)

- Ed