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On 15-Nov-14 01:43, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> Orca <seal@whales.org> writes:
>
>> On 2014-11-14, Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk> wrote:
>> What about a dolphin? Most people like dolphins. They're sleek and fast and
>> very intelligent. All things people like about Ada :-)
>
> Already taken by MySQL, I'm afraid. And that's the kind of association I
> think Ada would want to stay away from.

I agree -- there's some really good arguments against using MySQL here:
http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else