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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,66bc6b039f1e005d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Anders Wirzenius" Subject: Re: Three simple questions Date: 2000/10/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 681994428 References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39E47530.EB5FE94B@averstar.com> <200010120307433041802@t4o921p87.telia.com> <20001013172528721245@t1o921p93.telia.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Trace: read2.inet.fi 971690058 194.251.142.2 (Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:54:18 EET DST) Organization: Sonera corp Internet services X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:54:18 EET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Bjarne B�ckstr�m" wrote in message news:20001013172528721245@t1o921p93.telia.com... > Anders Wirzenius 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