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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: A UNISYS story.
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:03:55 GMT
Date: 2001-10-24T15:03:55+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vLAB7.41096$ev2.48447@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9r6j0n$lmk$1@newstoo.ericsson.se

In article <9r6j0n$lmk$1@newstoo.ericsson.se>, Petter Fryklund says...
>
>We could combine Ada and C++ the same way as UNISYS combined the two build
>and change managment tools widely used in the 80's. We had an American
>system called comus and an English called AIDS. We combined the two by
>taking the sw from the English and the name from the American. Some say that
>if we had done it the other way around, we would have had the right name for
>the product ;-)

Well, considering that Comus was the roman god representing the "pleasures of
nightlife", perhaps they are related in some way? :-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-24 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-15  8:21 Why not combine Ada and C++? Mike Meng
2001-10-15 10:29 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 10:36 ` Robert*
2001-10-15 11:15 ` Stephen Cole
2001-10-15 12:06   ` The caselessness is one of the things I like best! Petter Fryklund
2001-10-15 12:21     ` Gerhard Häring
2001-10-15 12:48       ` UPPERCASE is the typgraphical equivalent of shouting ;-) Petter Fryklund
2001-10-15 12:54       ` The caselessness is one of the things I like best! James Rogers
2001-10-15 13:11       ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 15:12         ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-15 16:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-18 19:48             ` Simon Wright
2001-10-18 23:35               ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-16  8:48           ` John English
2001-10-16 13:11             ` James Rogers
2001-10-16 18:10               ` tmoran
2001-10-17  8:53                 ` Philip Anderson
2001-10-17 10:57                   ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-19 14:52               ` john mann
2001-10-15 15:13       ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 17:00       ` tmoran
2001-10-15 17:29         ` Gerhard Häring
2001-10-15 17:38           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 18:01             ` Gerhard Häring
2001-10-15 19:04               ` David Starner
2001-10-15 18:15           ` David Starner
2001-10-15 17:35         ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 18:18           ` Pascal Obry
2001-10-15 18:57             ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 22:46           ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-16 13:32             ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-22  2:10             ` David Thompson
2001-10-15 13:03     ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-10-22 20:27     ` Kenneth Almquist
2001-10-15 14:39   ` Why not combine Ada and C++? Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 16:17     ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-10-15 16:35       ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 20:15         ` Robert*
2001-10-15 21:27           ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 22:50           ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-18 19:53             ` Simon Wright
2001-10-21  5:54               ` AG
2001-10-24 14:48     ` A UNISYS story Petter Fryklund
2001-10-24 15:03       ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-10-25  7:37         ` Petter Fryklund
2001-10-15 17:41   ` Why not combine Ada and C++? Stephen Cole
2001-10-15 18:27     ` tmoran
2001-10-15 20:24       ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-15 20:03     ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-15 18:42   ` Modern languages are case sensitive? Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-15 19:20     ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 22:54       ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-16 11:21         ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-10-16 11:42     ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-16 13:16       ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-10-16 23:43         ` David Botton
2001-10-17  1:42           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-16 14:36       ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-16 14:50       ` Chris Morgan
2001-10-16 15:18       ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 15:47         ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-16 16:48           ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 17:12         ` David Starner
2001-10-16 20:32           ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 21:37             ` David Starner
2001-10-17  8:39               ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-18  0:00     ` Will
2001-10-18  2:12       ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-18  2:32         ` Darren New
2001-10-18 11:32           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-15 19:47   ` Why not combine Ada and C++? Wes Groleau
2001-10-23  5:39     ` Hyman Rosen
2001-10-23  6:11       ` Richard Riehle
2001-10-15 19:28 ` Baugereau
2001-10-15 20:05   ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-16  7:38     ` Martin Dowie
2001-10-16 11:44       ` Pascal Obry
     [not found] ` <01c155a0$7dd31b80$1b7af2c3@akzvbymr>
2001-10-15 20:02   ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-15 20:55   ` Adrian Knoth
2001-10-15 22:15   ` Eric Merritt
2001-10-15 22:42   ` tmoran
     [not found]     ` <01c15665$dc2e6c00$9b29e8d4@akzvbymr>
2001-10-16 17:48       ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-16 18:04       ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-16 23:01         ` tmoran
2001-10-16 18:51       ` Marin David Condic
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