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: 2002-05-09 12:19:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!freenix!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Toshitaka Kumano Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT:GNAT (Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 04:21:30 +0900 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: References: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1020971942 26044 137.194.161.2 (9 May 2002 19:19:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 19:19:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [ja] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en,ja 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:23797 Date: 2002-05-10T04:21:30+09:00 "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" wrote: > 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". Of ACT-Europe? Eureka! # From my shabby Russian dictionary, I had learned "komar" as "mosquito". > hypothesis -:) Hypothesis? Very convincing! Thank you very much for the anecdote. I love it ! > Don't you feel that that picture reminds an airplane fighter? Like this ? http://www.holloman.af.mil/photos/f-117/990923.jpg BTW, do you write Ada identifiers in Cyrillic alphabet ? -- Toshitaka Kumano Kamakura Japan