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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:48:29 -0400
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"David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote in message
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Leake" <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
> To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 9:13 AM
> Subject: Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?
>
>
> > Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> >
> > > I strongly recommend to let GPS its well known original definition.
> >
> > Assuming you mean "Global Positioning Satellite", I think that is in a
> > sufficiently different domain that overloading with "GNAT Programming
> > System" is clear from context. There are only so many meaningful three
> > letter acronyms!
> >
> Well, maybe it's not so well-known -- GPS really means
> Global Positioning System.
>
And the domains aren't all that separate. Ada and GPS (the navigation
thingie) are often coupled together. I worked with both Ada and GPS before
there was an announcement of GPS, so GPS came before GPS and when GPS
finally exists one might use GPS to program GPS... Go figure... :-)

MDC
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