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From: inga.miller@verizon.net
Subject: Re: Why I Say Ada is the Ideal Language for Cryptography.
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:33:20 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2013-12-23T11:33:20-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <720ca432-fa66-4cf4-89f0-595cccb0fdab@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e26bbe3b-9042-4a93-a6bf-92e7603cce3b@googlegroups.com>

On Monday, December 23, 2013 11:39:34 AM UTC-6, Austin Obyrne wrote:
> On Monday, December 23, 2013 3:37:08 PM UTC, inga....@verizon.net wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday, December 22, 2013 7:54:34 AM UTC-6, Austin Obyrne wrote: 
>
> I stand corrected - I should have said the US Departemet of Defense - the NSA own nothing to do with Ada - apologies to anybody who has taken offence.
>
> Austin

But even that is not true anymore.  The DoD relinquished its trademark (serial number 73230945, applied for on 11 September 1979, granted 1 December 1981) on Ada as of 1 July 1988.  DoD's Ada Joint Program Office was disbanded in September 1998:  http://gcn.com/Articles/1998/06/22/Its-curtains-for-the-Ada-Joint-Program-Office.aspx


  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-23 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-22 13:54 Why I Say Ada is the Ideal Language for Cryptography Austin Obyrne
2013-12-22 18:15 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2013-12-23 15:37 ` inga.miller
2013-12-23 17:39   ` Austin Obyrne
2013-12-23 19:33     ` inga.miller [this message]
2013-12-24  0:23       ` Austin Obyrne
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