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From: martin.dowie@btopenworld.com (Martin Dowie)
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Subject: Re: New Ada compiler for .NET
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Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<AvMEsUuTeW9Q@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> > A down side with the name is that it appears to be
> > 'unsearchable' (my contribution to the ever-expanding
> > English language ;-) from Yahoo! et al...
> 
> Presumably it is no less searcheable than C#, so Microsoft fans should
> be accustomed to that limitation.

You'd be surprised... :-)

yahoo! will actually do a search for 'c' instead of 'c#' and there, at
item 39 in the 'web pages' list, is the first C# page. For 'A#' it
complains that 'a' is too common a word!

Even J# gets a good match at item 40.