From: Michal Nowak <vinnie@inetia.pl>
Subject: Re: OT:GNAT (Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 22:35:46 +0200
Date: 2002-05-10T22:35:46+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1021062903.6076.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4519e058.0205100709.1e96cbdc@posting.google.com>
On 2002-05-10 at 08:09 dennison@telepath.com wrote:
>Well, since it was decided that GNAT no longer is an acronym, a good
>reason for the name is now needed. Its a shame we have to let a
>trifling thing like the truth get in the way of this one. :-(
[cut about flying bugs]
>Polish and Russian are fairly closely related though (well...they are
>both Slavic anyway). So it seems likely that it would mean something
>similar in Polish. Does it?
Yes it does. But something totally not similar. Gnat in Polish means
"bone". Rather big one, possibly from a carrion. So it is negative
meaning, with bad association...:-(. Gnat is not exception here,
glut (from GLUT) means err,... something not pleasant. Maybe somewhere
in the world GNAT has some positive, nice meaning?
Mike
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2002-05-09 3:24 OT:GNAT (Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?) Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2002-05-10 1:35 ` Ed Falis
2002-05-10 10:26 ` Cyrille Comar
2002-05-10 15:09 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-10 20:35 ` Michal Nowak [this message]
2002-05-11 12:43 ` Robert Dewar
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2002-05-12 11:39 ` Michal Nowak
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2002-05-10 15:27 Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
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2002-05-09 19:21 ` Toshitaka Kumano
2002-05-02 2:59 GNAT Programming System - Wow Steve Doiel
2002-05-05 19:35 ` Per Sandbergs
2002-05-06 9:58 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-06 21:52 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-07 10:11 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-07 11:30 ` GPS - A new kind of IDE? John McCabe
2002-05-08 2:34 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-08 20:42 ` OT:GNAT (Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?) Toshitaka Kumano
2002-05-09 8:14 ` John McCabe
2002-05-09 8:26 ` Martin Dowie
2002-05-09 9:11 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-09 13:44 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-09 14:45 ` John McCabe
2002-05-09 15:35 ` Pascal Obry
2002-05-09 16:18 ` John McCabe
2002-05-09 18:13 ` Preben Randhol
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