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=-3.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,NICE_REPLY_A, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R.Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Carbon Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 01:21:26 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <993af397-b615-44e7-ae8d-ec706f9b6098n@googlegroups.com> <5f819cdd-e763-4a96-aed5-545d57edac23n@googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 23:21:26 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="fbc5165e7ddbe7f291a1c1842a1aef74"; logging-data="108914"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+/DBY4HQXV0qs/g2K5hxR/CVMicbmietU=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:u2ww3dJfbBKycywPyRjSVRm5imE= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64221 List-Id: On 2022-08-26 20:59, Olivier Henley wrote: > > If there is no intentional wordplay between "Rust" and "Carbon", I will be damned. Carbon's symbol is C, so I presumed that was where the name came from. Of course, that means Carbon and C are the same thing ... -- Jeff Carter “A key difference between Ada and most other software development languages is that Ada is deigned as an engineering tool as well as a programming tool.” Ada Distilled 209