From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,)
Subject: Re: What is the origin of `pragma'
Date: 6 Jul 89 16:55:52 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5937@hubcap.clemson.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 15896@vail.ICO.ISC.COM
From rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn):
> fmoore@skvax1.csc.ti.com (Freeman Moore [214]995-1901) writes:
>> Why was the word `pragma' selected?
> ALGOL 68 has a construct called a "pragmat" with very similar usage.
Nevertheless, it's not a very intuitively appealing keyword;
most people learning Ada don't say "Ah, yes, from the Latin..."
(or whatever)... rather, it's a counter-intuitive thing to be
memorized.
We simply want to give some directive to the compiler, so probably
something along the lines of "Compiler:" would be a better choice!
Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1989-06-29 12:38 What is the origin of `pragma' Freeman Moore [214]995-1901
1989-07-03 17:41 ` Scott Simpson
1989-07-06 4:17 ` Dick Dunn
1989-07-06 16:55 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847, [this message]
1989-07-07 15:52 ` Dick Dunn
1989-07-08 22:55 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-07-06 20:29 ` Uri Blumenthal
1989-07-07 10:42 ` Dik T. Winter
1989-07-08 21:51 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1989-07-14 14:06 ` Edward Falis
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