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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Happy birthday Lady Ada - on Google!
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"Jeffrey Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
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> On 12/10/2012 01:47 AM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>> Google's little picture of today is celebrating our favorite Lady's
>> birthday. Have a look!
>
> Also our favorite language, born today in 1980.

We tried to get the Ada 2012 standard to be published today, but 
unfortunately ISO's procedures only allow publishing on certain days of the 
month which do not include the 10th. It would have been cool to have it 
debut exactly 2**5 years after the original. :-)

                                            Randy.