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From: Natasha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@instinctive.eu>
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Subject: Re: The Owl - My Idea for the Ada mascot
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On 2014-11-21, sbelmont700@gmail.com <sbelmont700@gmail.com> wrote:
> Call me a pessimist, but any animal would be a bad representation for
> Ada; they evolve, much like C programs, over the course of many years
> by hasty and unplanned enhancements, included in a reactionary and
> haphazard manner based solely on what caused the previous one to fail.

What about a robot then? Cold like proper engineering, unforgiving like
an Ada compiler, durable likee well-engineered constructs (though it
could still be made cute, like Wall-E).


Natasha