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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-02 17:44:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.telebyte.nl!proxad.net!proxad.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-text.cableinet.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea.. From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <3E147D79.2070703@cogeco.ca> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 01:44:47 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.195.52.70 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-text.cableinet.net 1041558287 80.195.52.70 (Fri, 03 Jan 2003 01:44:47 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 01:44:47 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32468 Date: 2003-01-03T01:44:47+00:00 List-Id: On 3/1/03 01:05, in article ujn2va.go3.ln@beastie.ix.netcom.com, "Dennis Lee Bieber" wrote: > Well, keeping concurrent with Ada's period, we could go to last names: > Byron (and thence to friends of the family -- Shelley). > I don't think poets are macho enough. We need something really violent, like names of famous prizefighters, or extreme weather events (Tornado? Cyclone? Hurricane?). > Pity Frankenstein is the name of the "doctor" and not the proper name > of the monster... Then again, being built from odd parts is more the > domain of PL/1, is it not? > 8-) -- Bill-Findlay chez blue-yonder.co.uk ("-" => "")