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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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On 12/10/2011 01:43 PM, Ada @ BRL wrote:
>
> ADA.

Is that the American Dental Association, the Americans with Disabilities Act, or 
is there a British acronym I'm not aware of?

Ada is named for Augusta Ada King, n�e Byron, Countess of Lovelace, born on this 
date in 1815, who wrote programs for Babbage's analytical engine and so may be 
the first programmer. It's not an acronym.

As others have pointed out, when using a high-level language like Ada, one 
should use high-level mechanisms provided by the language, not the low-level 
mechanisms you'd use when using a low-level language like C or its descendants.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy,
and I bet he was glad to get rid of it."
Horse Feathers
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