Re: OT:GNAT (Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?)

["Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru>]

Toshitaka Kumano <kumano@cl.cilas.net> wrote:
>I always wonder why the great compiler has such a misleading name :-)

As far as I understand, there was a person, inside the team of the initial
creators of GNAT, at the French side, Kirille Comar (or Komar, it doesn't mean
for the issue). And "comar" (and also "komar") in Russian transliteration
means exactly "gnat". Assuming that Russian nationality of this person (his
first name suggests that), one may guess that the source of the name "GNAT" for
the compiler was from there. ... Hm, I hope nobody will annoyed by this beautiful
hypothesis -:)

>And how surprised I was when I found a cute bug fluttering
>on the brochure!

Don't you feel that that picture reminds an airplane fighter? And that must be
familiar and pleasant association for substantial part of Ada users.


Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia