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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 115aec,dc3ab72141132dcc X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dc3ab72141132dcc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-15 15:19:09 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de!ucaa2385 From: ucaa2385@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime Subject: Re: Distributed Ada 95 Workshop (April) Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime Date: 15 Mar 1995 16:02:10 GMT Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Message-ID: <3k7322$kln@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <3k1iqe$48d@mailer.fsu.edu> <1995Mar13.091151.44564@cc.usu.edu> <3k26fs$lik@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <1995Mar14.175605.44782@cc.usu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:11117 comp.realtime:3838 Date: 1995-03-15T16:02:10+00:00 List-Id: sl65r@cc.usu.edu wrote: : In article <3k26fs$lik@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, progers@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Pat Rogers) writes: : > In article <1995Mar13.091151.44564@cc.usu.edu>, wrote: : >>In article <3k1iqe$48d@mailer.fsu.edu>, baker@grep.cs.fsu.edu (Ted Baker) writes: : >>> The Ada RunTime Environment Working Group (ARTEWG) of the Special Interest : >>> Group on Ada (SIGAda) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will : >> : >>This is very interesting (TIVI). I wonder if you could have thrown : >>in anymore acronyms (IWIYCHTIAMA). ITC RMA BRB XTR RRX ... LOL :) : >> : >>BTW: PCMCIA (pronounced puckmuckia) stands for "People Can't Memorize : >>Computer Industry Acronyms" :) : > : > This from a person who's only identifiable name is "s165r" (at cc.usu.edu)! : it is sL65r, not s165r, and I certainly didn't choose the account name, : but since the account is "free" I can't complain. :) ("free" means : included in student fees) : Of course, it is an acronym for "Sings Like a '65 Rocker" ;-) I hate abbreviations and misuses of the computer like "s123" or "ucaa2385" (which was forced on me ;-), too. But if the acronyms always come along with the long meaning like in the original text above, then it is quite acceptable. if u cn rd ths, u r gd enuf to chg to Ada... -- Peter Hermann Tel:+49-711-685-3611 Fax:3758 ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de Pfaffenwaldring 27, 70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)