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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.236.223.69 with SMTP id u65mr15384670yhp.43.1417790992912; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:49:52 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.20.175 with SMTP id 44mr310320qgj.4.1417790992893; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:49:52 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!s7no4307174qap.1!news-out.google.com!r1ni15qat.1!nntp.google.com!s7no4307169qap.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 06:49:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=50.138.108.48; posting-account=yiWntAoAAAC1KqC_shmxJYv07B9l6LNU NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.138.108.48 References: <08a98d3a-0f72-491c-b024-3e09c0457c03@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3c98105f-f134-417c-910c-e92cf7dc4c9c@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: The Owl - My Idea for the Ada mascot From: David Botton Injection-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:49:52 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23880 Date: 2014-12-05T06:49:52-08:00 List-Id: > I think a much better "mascot" would be a cathedral, or some form Gothic = architecture. =20 Ichbiah saw Ada as a "Cathedral" In a 1984 interview with the Association for Computing Machinery, Mr. Ichbi= ah was asked to express his feelings about the language he had masterminded= . The response is befitting of a designer trained in civil engineering and = becoming a preeminent computer scientist: I see Ada as a cathedral, with al= l the architectural lines interwoven in a harmonious manner. I would not do= it differently if I had to do it over again.