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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4d85dafcfa1dcde6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-08 20:17:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!195.25.12.36!oleane.net!oleane!freenix!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT:GNAT (Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 07:24:03 +0400 (MSD) Organization: h w c employees, b f Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1020914222 33761 137.194.161.2 (9 May 2002 03:17:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 03:17:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23751 Date: 2002-05-09T07:24:03+04:00 Toshitaka Kumano 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