* Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
2003-01-08 19:46 ` Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..) faust
@ 2003-01-08 18:24 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-08 18:42 ` Edi Weitz
2003-01-09 16:30 ` faust
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From: Warren W. Gay VE3WWG @ 2003-01-08 18:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
2003-01-08 18:24 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
@ 2003-01-08 18:42 ` Edi Weitz
2003-01-09 16:30 ` faust
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From: Edi Weitz @ 2003-01-08 18:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
"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>
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* Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
2003-01-02 17:57 ` Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
@ 2003-01-08 19:46 ` faust
2003-01-08 18:24 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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From: faust @ 2003-01-08 19:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
"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)
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* Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
2003-01-08 18:24 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-08 18:42 ` Edi Weitz
@ 2003-01-09 16:30 ` faust
2003-01-10 7:00 ` Fraser Wilson
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From: faust @ 2003-01-09 16:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
"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)
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* Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
2003-01-09 16:30 ` faust
@ 2003-01-10 7:00 ` Fraser Wilson
2003-01-10 8:06 ` Geoffrey Summerhayes
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From: Fraser Wilson @ 2003-01-10 7:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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)
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* Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
@ 2003-01-10 7:02 Grein, Christoph
2003-01-10 15:58 ` Wes Groleau
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From: Grein, Christoph @ 2003-01-10 7:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
faust <urfaust@optushome.com.au> writes:
> Ada is such a wimpy name.
> Old eighteenth century woman....
1815 is in the 19th century...
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* Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
2003-01-10 7:00 ` Fraser Wilson
@ 2003-01-10 8:06 ` Geoffrey Summerhayes
2003-01-10 10:17 ` Fraser Wilson
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From: Geoffrey Summerhayes @ 2003-01-10 8:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
"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
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* Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
2003-01-10 8:06 ` Geoffrey Summerhayes
@ 2003-01-10 10:17 ` Fraser Wilson
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Fraser Wilson @ 2003-01-10 10:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
"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.
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* Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
2003-01-10 7:02 Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..) Grein, Christoph
@ 2003-01-10 15:58 ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-11 9:51 ` David Wright
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From: Wes Groleau @ 2003-01-10 15:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>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.
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* Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
2003-01-10 15:58 ` Wes Groleau
@ 2003-01-11 9:51 ` David Wright
[not found] ` <qg5qva.3d3.ln@beastie.ix.netcom.com>
2003-01-17 2:20 ` Kaz Kylheku
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From: David Wright @ 2003-01-11 9:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
"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.
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* Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
2003-01-13 2:06 ` u.r. faust
@ 2003-01-12 10:50 ` David Wright
[not found] ` <ucpsva.q73.ln@beastie.ix.netcom.com>
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From: David Wright @ 2003-01-12 10:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
"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.
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* Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
[not found] ` <qg5qva.3d3.ln@beastie.ix.netcom.com>
@ 2003-01-13 2:06 ` u.r. faust
2003-01-12 10:50 ` David Wright
[not found] ` <ucpsva.q73.ln@beastie.ix.netcom.com>
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From: u.r. faust @ 2003-01-13 2:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
> > 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)
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* Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
[not found] ` <ucpsva.q73.ln@beastie.ix.netcom.com>
@ 2003-01-14 2:57 ` Randy Brukardt
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From: Randy Brukardt @ 2003-01-14 2:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
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.
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* Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
2003-01-11 9:51 ` David Wright
[not found] ` <qg5qva.3d3.ln@beastie.ix.netcom.com>
@ 2003-01-17 2:20 ` Kaz Kylheku
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From: Kaz Kylheku @ 2003-01-17 2:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
"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.
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