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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: A couple of questions
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 17:47:48 GMT
Date: 2004-05-01T17:47:48+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p0o790tjs8j2ma25rgjioq2sklrv64df4e@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c70ep1$ruk$1@hercules.btinternet.com

On Sat, 1 May 2004 15:12:33 +0000 (UTC), "Yeric" <NOSPAM@NOSPAM.com>
declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:

> shall not mention to avoid a flame war, but suffice to say one language that

	About the only flame you are likely to trigger is that the
language is called "Ada" -- a formal name (after Augusta Ada Byron,
Countess of Lovelace, a cohort of Charles Babbage), and NOT an acronym. 

	"ADA" is the American Dental Association, or maybe the Americans
with Disabilities Act.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-01 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-01  1:00 A couple of questions Yeric
2004-05-01  5:12 ` James Rogers
2004-05-01  9:56 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-01 15:12 ` Yeric
2004-05-01 15:37   ` Ed Falis
2004-05-02 16:48     ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-02 22:39       ` Jeff C,
2004-05-03  7:10         ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-03 19:11           ` Hyman Rosen
2004-05-04  6:45             ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-01 16:04   ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-01 17:47   ` Dennis Lee Bieber [this message]
2004-05-02  0:13   ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-02  1:00   ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-01 18:53     ` Yeric
2004-05-01 20:16       ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-01 22:25         ` Yeric
2004-05-01 23:38           ` Ed Falis
2004-05-02 12:00             ` Yeric
2004-05-02 13:29               ` Ed Falis
2004-05-02 21:44               ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-02  4:18       ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-02  8:55       ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-02 10:48         ` Martin Dowie
2004-05-02 11:30           ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-02 15:30       ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-01 18:56 ` Marius Amado Alves
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-02  1:53 Marius Amado Alves
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