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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,9965efbd6df4a17a X-Google-Attributes: gidf4fd2,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-08 10:31:00 PST Message-ID: <3E1C6CF1.7060506@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..) References: <3E147D79.2070703@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 13:24:49 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1042050289 198.96.47.195 (Wed, 08 Jan 2003 13:24:49 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 13:24:49 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32760 comp.lang.lisp:50073 Date: 2003-01-08T13:24:49-05:00 List-Id: faust wrote: > "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" , emitted these fragments: >>Maybe what needs to be done is to form a brand new committee, to design >>a spashy new language that basically implements the same features, with >>similar syntax (but not too obviously). > > Arc is trying that now. > Paul Graham is redesigning lisp . This doesn't sound like a good start to me, if it is based upon lisp, (but keeping an open mind), do you have a link for this? >>Then give it a splashy new name >>after a popular young female (no programmer experience required), and >>call it something like "Shania". > > From a brief search on google ( I must apologize for my shocking > ignorance of celebrities, female or male ) "Echo and the Bunnymen" and > "Dusty Vladimir Horowitz " sound like excellent candidates :-) Well, I don't much pay attention to "popular stuff", but the following link might explain what first came to my mind ;-) http://www.shania-twain.com/ I can't say I know anything about "Dusty", and don't really get the connection to "Echo and the Bunnymen". Perhaps I'm showing my own cultural ignorance ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg