KUDOS and hats off to Rational !!!!!!!!

KUDOS and hats off to Rational !!!!!!!!

[Gregory Aharonian]

      Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooossssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
      (The sound of someone who has been holding their breath for three years
      suddenly letting go.  Boy does it feel good.)

      Are my eyes deceiving me?  Is one of my fervant Ada bitches coming true?
HAS HELL FROZE OVER??????

      But yes, in the October 1994 issue of Software Development, page 28,
the following phrase appeared:

	"...Because everything from Rational Rose to Rational Rose/C++ to
	Rational Rose/Ada is designed to ensure the success of your
	software development."

read it again.

	"...Because everything from Rational Rose to Rational Rose/C++ to
	Rational Rose/Ada is designed to ensure the success of your
	software development."

Yes, in a public ad in a relevant publication, Rational finally mentioned C++
and Ada on equal footing.  YES, YES, YES.  Admittedly five years too late,
and hopefully not a isolated incident, but hats off to Rational.  There go
all my flaming diatribes about Rational's hypocrisy in emphasizing C++
over Ada publicly.  Finally C++ and Ada in an ad together.  Makes one want
to weep for joy.  Maybe the begining of the end of the hypocrisy that has
been plaguing Ada for ten years.  One hopes. 

And much to Rational's surprise, I bet their associating themselves publicly
with Ada won't destroy their customer base, which is the only reason I ever
thought of for Rational taking so long to mentioning Ada and C++ in their
ads together.  If I had the money, I would rush out and buy a copy of
Rational Rose just to show my support.

So hat's off to Rational.  One suggestion though - why not use some desktop
image processing techniques to insert Ada Lovelace's face into the rose
garden photo at the top of the ad :-)

Greg Aharonian
SouRCe TRANslation & Optimization
^  ^^  ^^^^   for the acetylcholine deficient


P.S.   Gee at this rate, another five years of public bitching and maybe I
can get the waste of STARS & ASSET cancelled.  One can hope.

Re: KUDOS and hats off to Rational !!!!!!!!

[Lewis Berman]

Greg writes: "...why not use some desktop image processing techniques to
insert Ada Lovelace's face into the rose garden photo at the top of the
ad :-)"

Rational's intent is to attract people, not frighten them!
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Re: KUDOS and hats off to Rational !!!!!!!!

[David Weller]

In article <351v8n$jac@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>,
Lewis Berman <lewis@cscsun3.larc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>Greg writes: "...why not use some desktop image processing techniques to
>insert Ada Lovelace's face into the rose garden photo at the top of the
>ad :-)"
>
>Rational's intent is to attract people, not frighten them!

Hehe...I can't begin to tell you how much I _hate_ those pics of Ada.
For my presentations, I use an image of a rather attractive lass in a 
business suit.  It says everything I want it to say:  This is one
smart, modern lady that's easy on the eyes.   Yeah, sexist, I
suppose, but I get lots of compliments.  It was trimmed off a piece
of clipart from Microsoft's PowerPoint clipart collection.

Pat Rogers uses something similar for his slides.  Perhaps we do a
"model search" for a charming lass that represents the "new" Ada? :-)
(Maybe even one that actually writes Ada code!)


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Re: KUDOS and hats off to Rational !!!!!!!!

[Robert Dewar]

Dave, are you aware of Chris Anderson's updated picture of Ada (rather
smartly but not *too* modernly dressed).

Re: KUDOS and hats off to Rational !!!!!!!!

[Gary McKee]

In Article <3522bl$4u3@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM
(David Weller) wrote:
>...
>Pat Rogers uses something similar for his slides.  Perhaps we do a
>"model search" for a charming lass that represents the "new" Ada? :-)
>(Maybe even one that actually writes Ada code!)
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Don't you suppose that a "Charming Lass" in this era would object to being
named the personification of an "object_oriented" language. 

Women have been objecting to being objectified for decades.

Gary McKee
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