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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.agarik.com!news.agarik.com!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 04:41:22 +0400 (MSD) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <3ZMuc.93920$dP1.301740@newsc.telia.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1086050885 71903 212.85.156.195 (1 Jun 2004 00:48:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 00:48:05 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <3ZMuc.93920$dP1.301740@newsc.telia.net>; from Bj?rn Persson at Mon, 31 May 2004 20:55:27 GMT X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:967 Date: 2004-06-01T04:41:22+04:00 Bj?rn Persson wrote: > far too many > people seem to know Ada solely from the phrase "Oh no! Not Ada!". Free > software started to get accepted when it was rebranded as Open Source. > Maybe Ada 200Y should be given another name. Call it Ceylon for example, I'd like to note (following one old Russian anecdote), that this is not enough to change the name once - you should do that at least twice, for a case when someone suspiciously asks: "But what is the previous name?" . So you should, after renaming Ada to Ceylon, not turn immediately to propaganda, but wait a little, and then rename Ceylon to Sri Lanka - and only after that you may begin you rebranding campaing. > and introduce it as a brand new, modern, object oriented, Unicode > enabled language. And also offshore-enabled (as the name gently suggests). Alexander Kopilovich aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia