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

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

>> Don't you feel that that picture reminds an airplane fighter?
>
>Like this ?
>http://www.holloman.af.mil/photos/f-117/990923.jpg

Well. I think yes.


>BTW, do you write Ada identifiers in Cyrillic alphabet ?

No, never. First, I'm in Saint-Petersburg, at the western edge of Russia, and
traditionally, the partisans of Russification/Cyrillization of the programming
languages were concentrated in Novosibirsk (the regional "capital" of Siberia).
Second. almost all actual and potential users and customers are outside of Russia
(one can say that we simply have too few own tasks here, except. of course, of
dirty accounting on PCs). Third, Cyrillic encoding itself is an epic poem -;)
- currently there are 3 competing encodings in wide use - so-called "Windows"
(1251), "KOI-8R", and "alternative" (which was de facto standard for MS DOS).
Therefore, it is quite unreliable to send e-mail in Cyrillic to your Russian
friend if you do not know in advance that the recipient will be able to read
your Cyrillic encoding -:(


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