From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: ADA to C converter, the dream ?
Date: 1996/02/20
Date: 1996-02-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4gaudo$1u0@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.824579198@schonberg
dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>And in any case, to think that a mere name change will prevent people
>having misconceptions is, I am afraid, unrealistic :-)
*Prevent*, no. Nothing can prevent people having misconceptions.
*Reduce the likelihood* of misconceptions; that surely is not unrealistic.
>Also, we prefer to still capitalize it as GNAT :-)
Ah, so it's still an acronym.
>We discussed having a competition to determine the best after the fact
>acronym for GNAT (so far we are rather partial to the "Great New Ada
>Technology" suggestion :-)
Ah, a Gnomic New Acronym Tournament...
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1996-02-17 0:00 ` ADA to C converter, the dream ? Robert Dewar
1996-02-20 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe [this message]
1996-02-20 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-02-20 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-02-22 0:00 ` Tore Joergensen
1996-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-22 0:00 ` Tore Joergensen
1996-02-20 0:00 Simon Johnston
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