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: 2002-05-10 08:17:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!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: Fri, 10 May 2002 19:27:04 +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 1021043822 60298 137.194.161.2 (10 May 2002 15:17:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:17:02 +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:23849 Date: 2002-05-10T19:27:04+04:00 >> 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