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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?
Date: 10 May 2002 10:13:34 -0400
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Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:

> I strongly recommend to let GPS its well known original definition.

Assuming you mean "Global Positioning Satellite", I think that is in a
sufficiently different domain that overloading with "GNAT Programming
System" is clear from context. There are only so many meaningful three
letter acronyms!

> It is also not pleasant to have e.g. several "GLIDE"s, "GLADE"s etc.

I only know of one GLIDE, but I do know of two GLADEs; one is the GNAT
distributed annex implementation, one the Gtk GUI builder. I agree
these are from sufficiently similar domains that the overloading is
sometimes confusing.

> and I would wonder about someone who called his product e.g "USA" or
> "LA" etc.. Even Ada does not allow to use its 69 keywords as
> ordinary identifiers ;-)

I like the name US Robotics, even if they don't make robots anymore
:). Hmm, guess they got bought by 3Com.

-- 
-- Stephe