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-Thread: 11174e,a90d790ee7cf4aa X-Google-Thread: 103376,a90d790ee7cf4aa X-Google-Attributes: gid11174e,gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.os.development,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Yet another operating system References: <1138618414.716792.257240@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <43e318f4$0$1164$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch> In-Reply-To: <43e318f4$0$1164$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:55:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.150.71.131 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1138996516 67.150.71.131 (Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:55:16 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:55:16 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com alt.os.development:1422 comp.lang.ada:2764 Date: 2006-02-03T19:55:16+00:00 List-Id: Simon Felix wrote: > and almost the last name of the evil guy in the movie "wild wild west" Since this is cross posted to a non-Ada newsgroup, I'll explain that Augusta Ada King, who wrote programs for the Analytical Engine and for whom the Ada language is named, was the Countess of Lovelace. That's why the name shows up in connection with Ada. You may also encounter references to Charles Babbage, who invented the Analytical Engine; to 1815, the year Ada was born; to Byron, Ada's father and maiden name, and to Augusta, Ada's first name. -- Jeff Carter "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 66