From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)
Subject: Re: Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 7 Oct 1994
Date: 13 Oct 1994 20:40:03 -0500
Date: 1994-10-13T20:40:03-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37knhj$t17@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37k3bp$2sf@gnat.cs.nyu.edu
In article <37k3bp$2sf@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>I also vote in favor of retaining 9X!
>
Other names:
Fortran++
Simula++
Modula-10
Pascal-Beyond-Borland
B-- (a little better than a C++ :-)
A++ (a LOT better than a C++ :-)
Ada Warp 2.0 (What th' heck -- IBM can do it!)
Or, for you hardcore history buffs...
Plankalkul 2000
I'm not so sure Ada 9X is such a great name though. I remember
discussing Ada 9X a few years ago to some managers. I looked down
and saw one of them in the front row had blithely written:
Ada Nynex.
*Sigh*
Sometimes you'd wish they'd look at the slides :-)
--
Proud (and vocal) member of Team Ada! (and Team OS/2) ||This is not your
Ada -- Very Cool. Doesn't Suck. || father's Ada
For all sorts of interesting Ada tidbits, run the command: ||________________
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ObNitPick: Spelling Ada as ADA is like spelling C++ as CPLUSPLUS. :-)
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1994-10-12 18:35 ` Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 7 Oct 1994 Lance Kibblewhite
1994-10-13 3:32 ` Tucker Taft
1994-10-13 15:23 ` Dave McAllister
1994-10-13 19:55 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-14 1:40 ` David Weller [this message]
1994-10-14 2:17 ` Richard Kenner
1994-10-14 14:28 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-10-14 14:28 ` ncohen
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