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From: "David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
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Subject: Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Leake" <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?


> Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> 
> > I strongly recommend to let GPS its well known original definition.
> 
> Assuming you mean "Global Positioning Satellite", I think that is in a
> sufficiently different domain that overloading with "GNAT Programming
> System" is clear from context. There are only so many meaningful three
> letter acronyms!
> 
Well, maybe it's not so well-known -- GPS really means
Global Positioning System.