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From: dewar@gnat.com
Subject: Re: Ada 95 for SCO?
Date: 1998/09/12
Date: 1998-09-12T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6tdh5m$30n$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6tcnk7$5ce@priv-sys04-le0.telusplanet.net

In article <6tcnk7$5ce@priv-sys04-le0.telusplanet.net>,
  warwicks@telusplanet.net (Chris Warwick) wrote:

> of supporting the GNAT on SCO


The name of the system is "GNAT" not *the* GNAT. There seems
to be no uniform rule in English about whether the is needed,

  DARPA
  the DOD
  UNO
  the UN

and many other examples of arbitrary rules as to whether the
is allowed can be found. Since the rules are arbitrary, we
get to decide, and there is no *the*!

The pronounciation incidentally sounds the G, but quickly
in passing, in the same way that most people pronounce
Gnostic. It is not "NAT" and it is not "GEE-NAT".

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-09-12  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-09-04  0:00 Ada 95 for SCO? Terry Devine
1998-09-04  0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr
1998-09-06  0:00   ` dewarr
1998-09-11  0:00     ` Chris Warwick
1998-09-12  0:00       ` dewarr
1998-09-12  0:00       ` dewar [this message]
1998-09-12  0:00         ` Ronald Cole
1998-09-13  0:00           ` dewarr
1998-09-12  0:00       ` dewarr
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