From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: New to Ada
Date: 4 Sep 2002 06:05:10 -0600
Date: 2002-09-04T06:05:10-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <KtEEXHWivD7a@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3d7594b0_2@corp.newsgroups.com
In article <3d7594b0_2@corp.newsgroups.com>, "Bill Cunningham" <some.net> writes:
> Is this Ada that help Charles Babbage with his counting machine?
The computer language was not around back then :-), but yes after it
was developed the language was named in honor of Babbage's coworker,
Lady Ada Lovelace. Apparently the originators thought it was a better
name than STD-454325499638 or "Green". It isn't easy being "Green".
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2002-09-04 5:21 New to Ada Bill Cunningham
2002-09-04 6:52 ` Pascal Obry
2002-09-04 12:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-04 13:20 ` Pascal Obry
2002-09-04 19:01 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-09-04 10:50 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-04 12:05 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2002-09-04 11:10 ` Preben Randhol
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2002-10-28 6:36 New to ADA Bill Cunningham
2002-10-28 6:47 ` Jim Rogers
2002-10-28 7:02 ` Bill Cunningham
2002-10-28 21:20 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
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