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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: The Owl - My Idea for the Ada mascot
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"David Botton" <david@botton.com> wrote in message 
news:3c98105f-f134-417c-910c-e92cf7dc4c9c@googlegroups.com...
>> I think a much better "mascot" would be a cathedral, or some form Gothic 
>> architecture.

>Ichbiah saw Ada as a "Cathedral"

>In a 1984 interview with the Association for Computing Machinery, Mr. 
>Ichbiah was asked
>to express his feelings about the language he had masterminded. The 
>response is befitting of
>a designer trained in civil engineering and becoming a preeminent computer 
>scientist: I see
>Ada as a cathedral, with all the architectural lines interwoven in a 
>harmonious manner. I
>would not do it differently if I had to do it over again.

Which explains his reaction to Ada 95 (from another thead): it adds the 
equivalent of a modern glass tower next to his "cathedral", which bothers 
his sense of purity. Even if the original "cathedral" is impractical...

                                 Randy.