Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

[Warren W. Gay VE3WWG]

faust wrote:
>  "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> ,  emitted these fragments:
>>Maybe what needs to be done is to form a brand new committee, to design
>>a spashy new language that basically implements the same features, with
>>similar syntax (but not too obviously). 
> 
> Arc is trying that now.
> Paul Graham is redesigning lisp .

This doesn't sound like a good start to me, if it is based upon
lisp, (but keeping an open mind), do you have a link for this?

>>Then give it a splashy new name
>>after a popular young female (no programmer experience required), and
>>call it something like "Shania". 
> 
> From a brief search on google ( I must apologize for my shocking
> ignorance of celebrities, female or male ) "Echo and the Bunnymen" and
> "Dusty Vladimir Horowitz " sound like excellent candidates :-)

Well, I don't much pay attention to "popular stuff", but the following
link might explain what first came to my mind ;-)

http://www.shania-twain.com/

I can't say I know anything about "Dusty", and don't really get the
connection to "Echo and the Bunnymen". Perhaps I'm showing my
own cultural ignorance ;-)

-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg

Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

[Edi Weitz]

"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> writes:

> faust wrote:
> >  "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> ,  emitted these fragments:
> >>Maybe what needs to be done is to form a brand new committee, to design
> >>a spashy new language that basically implements the same features, with
> >> similar syntax (but not too obviously).
> > Arc is trying that now.
> > Paul Graham is redesigning lisp .
> 
> This doesn't sound like a good start to me, if it is based upon
> lisp, (but keeping an open mind), do you have a link for this?

 <http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html>

Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

[faust]

 "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> ,  emitted these fragments:

>Maybe what needs to be done is to form a brand new committee, to design
>a spashy new language that basically implements the same features, with
>similar syntax (but not too obviously). 

Arc is trying that now.
Paul Graham is redesigning lisp .

>Then give it a splashy new name
>after a popular young female (no programmer experience required), and
>call it something like "Shania". 

From a brief search on google ( I must apologize for my shocking
ignorance of celebrities, female or male ) "Echo and the Bunnymen" and
"Dusty Vladimir Horowitz " sound like excellent candidates :-)

-- 
natsu-gusa ya     / tsuwamono-domo-ga / yume no ato
summer grasses / strong ones          / dreams site
 
Summer grasses,
All that remains
Of soldier's dreams
(Basho trans. Stryk)

Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

[faust]

 "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> ,  emitted these fragments:

>> From a brief search on google ( I must apologize for my shocking
>> ignorance of celebrities, female or male ) "Echo and the Bunnymen" and
>> "Dusty Vladimir Horowitz " sound like excellent candidates :-)
>
>Well, I don't much pay attention to "popular stuff", but the following
>link might explain what first came to my mind ;-)
>
>http://www.shania-twain.com/

A Twain driver ?

>I can't say I know anything about "Dusty", and don't really get the
>connection to "Echo and the Bunnymen". 

I am not sure who they are either.
They just sounded like the most unmarketable names :-)

Ada is such a wimpy name.
Old eighteenth century woman....

-- 
natsu-gusa ya     / tsuwamono-domo-ga / yume no ato
summer grasses / strong ones          / dreams site
 
Summer grasses,
All that remains
Of soldier's dreams
(Basho trans. Stryk)

Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

[Fraser Wilson]

faust <urfaust@optushome.com.au> writes:

> Ada is such a wimpy name.
> Old eighteenth century woman....

I don't follow.

Fraser.
(but just in case, my new language is going to be called Butch, after a
twenty-first century truck driver)

Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

[Grein, Christoph]

faust <urfaust@optushome.com.au> writes:

> Ada is such a wimpy name.
> Old eighteenth century woman....

1815 is in the 19th century...

Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

[Geoffrey Summerhayes]

"Fraser Wilson" <newsfraser@blancolioni.org> wrote in message
news:u1y3lmqud.fsf@FWILSON.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-shoot-me...
> faust <urfaust@optushome.com.au> writes:
>
> > Ada is such a wimpy name.
> > Old eighteenth century woman....
>
> I don't follow.
>

The first programmer to suffer from major hardware problems :-)

http://www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/BestOf/WomenInMath7103.html

---
Geoff

Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

[Fraser Wilson]

"Geoffrey Summerhayes" <sumNOSPAMrnot@hotmail.com> writes:

> The first programmer to suffer from major hardware problems :-)

Oh, I know that, but I couldn't follow the logic from eighteenth [sic]
century woman to wimpy.

An anonymous troll with a wanky pseudonym, that's wimpy.

Fraser.

Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

[Wes Groleau]

>>Ada is such a wimpy name.
>>Old eighteenth century woman....
> 
> 1815 is in the 19th century...

And she never got a chance to be old.

Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

[David Wright]

"Wes Groleau" <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in
message
news:L4CT9.2393$c6.2552@bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com..
.
:
: >>Ada is such a wimpy name.
: >>Old eighteenth century woman....
: >
: > 1815 is in the 19th century...
:
: And she never got a chance to be old.
:

Yes, but you've got to admit that ADA 'sounds' old;
either that or conjures up some milk producing barnyard
animal. Why not MADONNA or VANESSA (Amarosi*) ;-)  The
only reason I ever looked at Euphoria was because of
it's name.

Just kidding.

*Dubious spelling

D.W.

Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

[David Wright]

"u.r. faust" <urfaust@optushome.com.au> wrote in
message news:bs2lyfai.fsf@optushome.com.au...
:
: > > Yes, but you've got to admit that ADA 'sounds'
old;
: > > either that or conjures up some milk producing
barnyard
: >
: > > animal. Why not MADONNA or VANESSA (Amarosi*) ;-)
The
: > > only reason I ever looked at Euphoria was because
of
: > > it's name.
: > >
: >  Well, I don't think Grace would have been accepted
at the time
:
: Too tame. Sounds too much like grace, hope and
charity...
:
: SLUT or NETBITCH would have been better.
:

Nah... why would you want to immortalize my girlfriend?
^_^

D.W.

Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

[u.r. faust]

> > Yes, but you've got to admit that ADA 'sounds' old;
> > either that or conjures up some milk producing barnyard
> 
> > animal. Why not MADONNA or VANESSA (Amarosi*) ;-)  The
> > only reason I ever looked at Euphoria was because of
> > it's name.
> >
>  Well, I don't think Grace would have been accepted at the time 

Too tame. Sounds too much like grace, hope and charity...

SLUT or NETBITCH would have been better.




-- 
natsu-gusa ya  / tsuwamono-domo-ga / yume no ato
summer grasses / strong ones       / dreams site
 
Summer grasses,
All that remains
Of soldier's dreams
(Basho trans. Stryk)

Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

[Randy Brukardt]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote in message ...

>        Well, we do seem to be hoping for a charitable market <G>

When we first were starting out, way back in 1980, we had the problem of
naming our compiler.

I wanted to call it "Newspeak", because of the connection with the
government. I was talked out it, and we named it "Janus" instead.

              Randy Brukardt.

Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)

[Kaz Kylheku]

"David Wright" <davidw@uq.net.au> wrote in message news:<avopcn$q6g$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>...
> "Wes Groleau" <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in
> message
> news:L4CT9.2393$c6.2552@bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com..
> .
> :
> : >>Ada is such a wimpy name.
> : >>Old eighteenth century woman....
> : >
> : > 1815 is in the 19th century...
> :
> : And she never got a chance to be old.
> :
> 
> Yes, but you've got to admit that ADA 'sounds' old;
> either that or conjures up some milk producing barnyard
> animal. Why not MADONNA or VANESSA (Amarosi*) ;-)  The
> only reason I ever looked at Euphoria was because of
> it's name.

Note that the name Vanessa was invented by Jonathan Swift, who lived
from 1667 to 1745.