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: 103376,4d85dafcfa1dcde6
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-10 03:39:54 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!not-for-mail
From: Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:39:53 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <abg81p$341$1@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <9Y1A8.25350$D%5.3478@sccrnsc01>
 <iQfB8.1478$l55.3505@news2.bredband.com>
 <slrnadcku7.b7d.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>
 <5ee5b646.0205061352.456c075a@posting.google.com>
 <slrnadfa2u.33h.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no>
 <3cd7b506.11293318@news.demon.co.uk> <3CDB2F01.78B66E87@adaworks.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de
X-Trace: news.uni-stuttgart.de 1021027193 3201 129.69.118.32 (10 May 2002
 10:39:53 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: news@news.uni-stuttgart.de
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:39:53 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980117 (UNIX) (IRIX/6.5 (IP22))
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23830
Date: 2002-05-10T10:39:53+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com> wrote:
> John McCabe wrote:
>> I also agree with someone else who suggested the possible confusion
>> between GPS and GPS.
> Maybe it's not too late to change the name to GPE, for
> Gnat Programming Environment.   I rather like that better,
> but it's obviously not my call.
> Richard Riehle

I strongly recommend to let GPS its well known original definition.
It is also not pleasant to have e.g. several "GLIDE"s, "GLADE"s etc.
and I would wonder about someone who called his product e.g "USA"
or "LA" etc..
Even Ada does not allow to use its 69 keywords as ordinary identifiers ;-)

-- 
--Peter Hermann(49)0711-685-3611 fax3758 ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de
--Pfaffenwaldring 27 Raum 114, D-70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen
--http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/
--Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)