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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?
Date: 14 May 2002 07:00:03 -0600
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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.