From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Received: by 2002:a05:6214:27c7:b0:476:9872:947c with SMTP id ge7-20020a05621427c700b004769872947cmr3778014qvb.114.1661613607838; Sat, 27 Aug 2022 08:20:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a81:6cd7:0:b0:33d:cd0f:123a with SMTP id h206-20020a816cd7000000b0033dcd0f123amr4132213ywc.422.1661613607614; Sat, 27 Aug 2022 08:20:07 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!border-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 08:20:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=73.177.64.234; posting-account=mOeXzwoAAACt_yXMqECCp_EJfeVMNM-g NNTP-Posting-Host: 73.177.64.234 References: <993af397-b615-44e7-ae8d-ec706f9b6098n@googlegroups.com> <5f819cdd-e763-4a96-aed5-545d57edac23n@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Carbon From: John Perry Injection-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 15:20:07 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64228 List-Id: On Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 6:27:35 AM UTC-5, roda... @gmail.com wrote: > On 27/8/22 09:21, Jeffrey R.Carter wrote:=20 > > On 2022-08-26 20:59, Olivier Henley wrote:=20 > >>=20 > >> If there is no intentional wordplay between "Rust" and "Carbon", I=20 > >> will be damned.=20 > >=20 > > Carbon's symbol is C, so I presumed that was where the name came from.= =20 > > Of course, that means Carbon and C are the same thing ...=20 > > > So the next incarnation of Ada might be Adamantium ? ... :) +1 Imagine the benefits to marketing and web search! :-D Regarding the earlier question of why people don't use Ada, when I used to = ask others why C++ and not Ada, the usual answer I heard was, "Isn't Ada de= ad?" People might have cited others as well, but they typically led with th= at one-- unless it was, "Never heard of it!"