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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,b388e4a11c35fe6a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,b388e4a11c35fe6a X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b388e4a11c35fe6a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe) Subject: Re: ADA to C converter, the dream ? Date: 1996/02/20 Message-ID: <4gaudo$1u0@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140147968 references: <4fn8bv$6d1@news.be.innet.net> <3121E777.304D@afit.af.mil> <3123749C.53AB@escmail.orl.mmc.com> organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.realtime Date: 1996-02-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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... -- Election time; but how to get Labour _out_ without letting Liberal _in_? Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.