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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,42490cad53ee37fa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr21.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!4988f22a!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: NOACE- End of the road for Ada? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.106.117.174 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr21.news.prodigy.com 1111113944 ST000 69.106.117.174 (Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:45:44 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:45:44 EST Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: FKPO@SBEQJV]SQ@[EZOD]_\@VR]^@B@MCPWZKB]MPXHDUWYAKVUOPCW[ML\JXUCKVFDYZKBMSFX^OMSAFNTINTDDMVW[X\THOPXZRVOCJTUTPC\_JSBVX\KAOTBAJBVMZTYAKMNLDI_MFDSSOLXINH__FS^\WQGHGI^C@E[A_CF\AQLDQ\BTMPLDFNVUQ_VM Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:45:44 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9577 Date: 2005-03-18T02:45:44+00:00 List-Id: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" wrote in message news:mailman.37.1111031966.23655.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org... > But name isn't always the most important thing in a declaration. For example, > consider Country Profile, where most probably you'll read: > > President : George Bush > Well, the order we use for names and titles is not necessarily the natural order. In Chinese or Japanese we would say, Bush George or for Mr. Bush, Bush Xianshiang (Chinese) Bush san (Japanese) The fuss English speakers make about the order of words for programming syntax is artificial for every language, and not necessarily the way the rest of the world does it. Richard Riehle