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: 103376,d17f9c8d910b90f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 MSIE X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada References: <7MJ0d.103131$dP1.369128@newsc.telia.net> In-Reply-To: <7MJ0d.103131$dP1.369128@newsc.telia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 03:12:08 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.104.74 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1094958728 63.184.104.74 (Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:12:08 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:12:08 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3603 Date: 2004-09-12T03:12:08+00:00 List-Id: Bj�rn Persson wrote: > > Is it a trademark? Somebody ought to know. Back in the days of Ada 83, "Ada" was trademarked by the DoD, and you couldn't call a compiler an Ada compiler unless it was validated. However, that hasn't been true for a long time. -- Jeff Carter "No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle, do you understand? Even--and I want to make this absolutely clear--even if they do say, 'Jehova.'" Monty Python's Life of Brian 74