From: Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>
Subject: Re: One sillier idea..
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:33:30 -0500
Date: 2003-01-16T11:33:30-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <maBV9.2437$c6.2454@bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E2641C4.B3B9245D@adaworks.com
> Well, I've mentioned this before as a cautionary issue, but reports are
> coming in of an impending world-wide shortage of curly braces. Soon,
> languages that depend on curly braces will run out of this essential
> resource, and other languages will have to fill in the gap. :-)
A little-known story on how these languages
came to be: When C was being invented, there
was a shortage of letters. Naturally the marketing
guys got first choice, and the programmers had
to settle for mostly punctuation marks. It was
difficult even getting approval to give the name
"C" to the patriarch instead of "$"
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2002-12-31 18:37 Anybody in US using ADA ? Mr Bill
2002-12-31 18:55 ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-01 3:20 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-01 7:11 ` tmoran
2003-01-01 14:31 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-01 22:49 ` tmoran
2003-01-02 12:45 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-02 18:08 ` Anybody in US using ADA ? New language competition? Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-03 2:47 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-03 6:01 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-01-03 17:58 ` Anybody in US using ADA ? New language competition? (long) Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-04 14:57 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-06 15:53 ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-06 16:36 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-01-06 20:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-01-07 13:15 ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-07 19:05 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-01-07 19:37 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-01-07 20:52 ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-08 20:05 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-01-07 21:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-01-08 0:30 ` Richard Riehle
2003-01-08 20:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-01-07 13:11 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-06 18:22 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-06 20:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-01-07 13:56 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-07 19:15 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-01-08 13:14 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-08 18:04 ` tmoran
2003-01-08 18:05 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-08 20:20 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-01-09 13:21 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-08 20:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-01-09 13:34 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-07 13:50 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-07 17:48 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-08 13:34 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-08 18:04 ` tmoran
2003-01-08 18:16 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-09 13:22 ` chris.danx
2003-01-09 13:53 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-09 15:09 ` Raster graphics [was Anybody in US using ADA ? New language competition? (long)] Chad R. Meiners
2003-01-11 19:23 ` chris.danx
2003-01-03 9:57 ` Anybody in US using ADA ? Kevin Cline
2003-01-03 12:37 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-03 15:32 ` Anybody in US using ADA ? | for interrest Mark
2003-01-09 0:59 ` Anybody in US using ADA ? faust
2003-01-08 12:53 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-05 17:04 ` Adrian Hoe
2003-01-06 20:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-01-07 2:07 ` Jeffrey Creem
2003-01-07 3:22 ` Jeffrey Creem
2003-01-05 17:06 ` Adrian Hoe
2003-01-02 3:05 ` faust
2003-01-02 3:07 ` faust
2003-01-02 22:09 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-01-02 17:57 ` Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-02 18:29 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-01-02 22:02 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-02 20:36 ` Bill Findlay
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2003-01-03 1:44 ` Bill Findlay
2003-01-09 2:21 ` faust
2003-01-03 2:56 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-03 4:11 ` sk
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2003-01-03 6:01 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-01-07 17:47 ` Kevin Cline
2003-01-07 19:49 ` tmoran
2003-01-09 5:15 ` Kevin Cline
2003-01-03 13:16 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-03 18:28 ` Bill Findlay
2003-01-04 15:17 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-09 16:36 ` faust
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2003-01-09 4:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-03 20:07 ` tmoran
2003-01-03 23:06 ` Martin Dowie
2003-01-09 16:22 ` faust
2003-01-04 7:07 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-01-04 17:49 ` Steve
2003-01-05 3:07 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-01-07 12:38 ` Richard Riehle
2003-01-09 16:36 ` faust
2003-01-09 16:37 ` Harness your own creativity to Ada (Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..) faust
2003-01-03 9:24 ` Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea Kevin Cline
2003-01-03 10:11 ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-03 13:23 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-03 18:40 ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-04 9:05 ` Kevin Cline
2003-01-04 16:34 ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-03 19:40 ` Kevin Cline
2003-01-03 22:34 ` Ted Dennison
2003-01-04 8:53 ` Kevin Cline
2003-01-04 11:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-04 18:15 ` Robert A Duff
2003-01-04 20:18 ` Hillel Y. Sims
2003-01-05 14:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-05 15:45 ` James S. Rogers
2003-01-06 14:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-06 1:20 ` Hillel Y. Sims
2003-01-06 14:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-06 19:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-01-07 12:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-08 4:24 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-08 13:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-08 18:43 ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-08 21:54 ` Ted Dennison
2003-01-09 5:05 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-06 1:37 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-01-06 14:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-06 19:13 ` Pascal Obry
2003-01-07 12:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-07 3:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-07 12:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-08 3:41 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-08 13:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-09 4:23 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-10 13:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-13 17:05 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-15 17:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-15 17:23 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-15 18:19 ` Bill Findlay
2003-01-15 19:02 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-15 19:11 ` Bill Findlay
2003-01-15 22:51 ` chris.danx
2003-01-15 23:39 ` Bill Findlay
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2003-01-17 8:27 ` Anders Wirzenius
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2003-01-16 0:24 ` Bill Findlay
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2003-01-16 18:59 ` Hyman Rosen
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2003-01-25 1:40 ` Richard Riehle
2003-01-26 4:57 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-18 12:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-18 22:53 ` Hillel Y. Sims
2003-01-19 6:18 ` Kevin Cline
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2003-01-21 2:10 ` Hillel Y. Sims
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2003-01-23 16:27 ` Hyman Rosen
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2003-01-26 6:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-27 10:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-27 15:08 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-28 8:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-28 15:48 ` Kevin Cline
2003-01-28 16:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-28 17:14 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-29 8:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-28 17:11 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-29 8:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-29 15:44 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-29 21:34 ` Mark Biggar
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2003-01-17 4:03 ` Richard Riehle
2003-01-17 16:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-21 5:53 ` Richard Riehle
2003-01-21 6:24 ` tmoran
2003-01-16 19:09 ` Larry Kilgallen
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2003-01-16 18:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-25 16:05 ` Robert I. Eachus
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2003-01-03 2:51 ` Marin David Condic
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2003-01-08 21:44 ` C++ , ADA and the Joint Strike Fighter Vinzent Hoefler
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2003-01-09 14:57 ` C++ , ADA and the Joint Strike Fighter (Off-topic) Larry Kilgallen
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