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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a50a3c40267219cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-24 08:04:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3105e154.0110150021.32ff5426@posting.google.com> <9qeg5r$266$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <9qesee$s5b$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9r6j0n$lmk$1@newstoo.ericsson.se> Subject: Re: A UNISYS story. Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:03:55 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:03:55 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15127 Date: 2001-10-24T15:03:55+00:00 List-Id: In article <9r6j0n$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? :-) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.