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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Renaming Ada (Re: Java momentum slowing ?)
Date: 1999/05/07
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In article <7gtvbd$1qo5@drn.newsguy.com>,
  bob@nospam wrote:
> 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++.

"COOL" is copyrighted by Sterling software for their line of software tools.
(The old ObjectTeam is now COOL:JEX) I suspect Microsoft could afford to buy
them or destroy them in court if they want the name, but I don't think the
entire Ada community could do that.

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