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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?
Date: 14 May 2002 07:00:03 -0600
Date: 2002-05-14T07:00:03-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nhWIxq5iLfkS@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3ce0d39d.4534910@news.demon.co.uk

In article <3ce0d39d.4534910@news.demon.co.uk>, john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe) writes:
> On 10 May 2002 08:46:43 -0700, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:
> 
>>How about someone who calls his product Ada
>>
>>= American Dental Association
>>= Americans for Democratic Action
>>= Americans with Disability Act
> 
> These are all acronyms though (ADA) rather than names (Ada).

There are advertisements for ADA programmers.  Sometimes they mean
Ada and sometimes they mean web designers who can make pages that
comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

There are also advertisements for VAX programmers that really mean
Alpha VMS programmers.

I am happy that Ada language processors are much less forgiving than
English language processors.



  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-14 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-02  2:59 GNAT Programming System - Wow Steve Doiel
2002-05-02 17:13 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-03  8:54   ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-03 16:16     ` Darren New
2002-05-03 16:21     ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-03 17:56       ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-05-02 18:28 ` martin.m.dowie
2002-05-02 18:55   ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-02 22:00 ` Rod Chapman
2002-05-02 23:59   ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-05-03  1:16 ` Steve Doiel
2002-05-03  3:12   ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-05-03 13:21     ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-04  1:51       ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-06 15:48         ` Wes Groleau
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  7:49             ` Martin Dowie
2002-05-08 10:40               ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-08  8:17             ` John McCabe
2002-05-08  8:34               ` Martin Dowie
2002-05-08 10:57                 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-08 13:59             ` Wes Groleau
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
2002-05-09 14:06             ` GPS - A new kind of IDE? Mário Amado Alves
2002-05-09 14:06             ` Mário Amado Alves
2002-05-10  2:22           ` Richard Riehle
2002-05-10  8:38             ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-10 10:39             ` Peter Hermann
2002-05-10 14:13               ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-10 14:52                 ` David C. Hoos
2002-05-10 15:48                   ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-11 12:39                     ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-12 19:12                   ` James Ross
2002-05-12 21:21                     ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-10 15:46               ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-10 16:04                 ` Mário Amado Alves
2002-05-11  0:44                 ` Richard Riehle
2002-05-14  9:07                 ` John McCabe
2002-05-14 13:00                   ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2002-05-10 13:16             ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-10 13:19             ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-10 14:18               ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-10 15:18                 ` Rajat Datta
2002-05-14  9:09                   ` John McCabe
2002-05-14 14:16                     ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-14 16:24                       ` John McCabe
2002-05-14 15:22                     ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-10 15:34                 ` Arnaud Charlet
2002-05-10 16:32                   ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-10 13:22             ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-13 14:56               ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-11 10:34           ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-11 10:34           ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-13 13:06           ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-05-14 15:31             ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-07  7:47 ` GNAT Programming System - Wow Antonio Duran
2002-05-28 10:49 ` Martin Dowie
2002-05-28 12:15   ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-28 13:09   ` Sergey I. Rybin
2002-05-29  8:36     ` John McCabe
     [not found] <000001c1f762$aed14310$7201a8c0@bacus>
2002-05-09 14:15 ` GPS - A new kind of IDE? Mário Amado Alves
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-10 18:41 Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2003-02-08  9:02 Oliver Kellogg
2003-02-08 10:30 ` Preben Randhol
2003-02-11  1:24   ` Oliver Kellogg
2003-02-15 22:08     ` Oliver Kellogg
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