Re: Three simple questions

["Anders Wirzenius" <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi>]

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"Bjarne B�ckstr�m" <bjarne.backstrom@telia.com> wrote in message
news:20001013172528721245@t1o921p93.telia.com...
> Anders Wirzenius <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi> wrote:
>
> [...]
> > ... which leads me to annoy you with telling that the Finnish (finnish
;-)
> > word
> > for iceberg is j��vuori ( j auml auml v u o r i, maybe your screen does
not
> > show the auml letter) which is pronounced EXACTLY
> > sorry, exactly, as it is written: short sound for one letter, long sound
for
> > two letters. Just try.
>
>    Lessee, "j��vouri" contains eight letters; If I start, say on a
> Monday, when do I stop? ;-)

Sorry, of course I should have mentioned that the group of letters shall
consist of either vowels or consonants but not mixed. Thanks for the
indication of the incompleteness of the definition. The "lang" in
comp.lang.ada should have remained me of being exact.

>
> P�iv�,

This is a new shortening of the Finnish translation of "Have a good day" (my
assumption of your intention). The complete wish reads "Hyv�� p�iv�n
jatkoa". You might also have meant "Good day" which is translated "Hyv��
p�iv��", shortly: "P�iv��", not "P�iv�"
;-) ;-) (how do you write ";-)" in upper case?)

End of discussion from my side.

I am a former programmer (Fortran, Basic) that laborated a little with Ada
back in 1980's (1983?) using a parser on a Vax 11/780 machine. The parser
had a speed of 2..5 minutes per line of Ada code then. Which caused me to
drop the language.
Resently I discovered the free compilers in Intranet and that started a new
era in my life. Wov!

Does anybody of you know of any Ada usage or Ada programming in Finland?
There was at least a bank system which was programmed in Ada. I think the
hardware was a Nokia product named MP 10. The system was dropped when the
bank company was mergered with another bank company.

Anyone knowing somethong about Ada in Finland today?

Anders