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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,517611567e1815f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: bob@nospam Subject: Re: Renaming Ada (Re: Java momentum slowing ?) Date: 1999/05/06 Message-ID: <7gtvbd$1qo5@drn.newsguy.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 475057832 References: <372b0ec7.28153993@news2.ibm.net> <3728E60E.F789FD8@uq.net.au> <37299369.83779478@news2.ibm.net> <7gdlca$2j5l@drn.newsguy.com> <372f0ed9.104817048@news2.ibm.net> <7ghad5$1mma@drn.newsguy.com> <372d6106.5099983@news2.ibm.net> <7gsk7k$5fr@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <373230E9.E03134E7@epix.net> <37323E13.A5A2AFA7@Botton.com> Organization: Newsguy News Service [http://www.newsguy.com] Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <37323E13.A5A2AFA7@Botton.com>, David says... > >Java++ would just get you an entrance to the court room where you would >have Sun on one side for the Java name and MS on the other for the ++. > good point. someone told me also that MS has a pending patent on "++". How about we rename Ada to "COOL" before MS graps that name also? I hear MS is working on this new language and they want to call it COOL, or COOL++. It seems that all the good and cool and zappy and modern names for computer languages has been taken allready by different languages. I really think that the biggest blunder the Ada95 team did was not to rename Ada to something completely different and wild than the generic name 'Ada' (for crying out loud, 'Ada' is a name of a person who lived more than 130 years ago!, it is not a modern name! what is so cool about a name such as 'Ada'? it has the letter 'a' repated 2 times in a 3 letters name!! not only that, there is no 'X' or 'Z' or '+' or 'C' or 'J' or any of the eye catching letters in the name. They had the chance to do it then, and they blew it, and we are now all paying for that positional mistake and will continue to do so. Bob