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- From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.realtime
- Subject: Re: ADA to C converter, the dream ?
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 09:43:04 +1100
- Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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- dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
- >And in any case, to think that a mere name change will prevent people
- >having misconceptions is, I am afraid, unrealistic :-)
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- *Prevent*, no. Nothing can prevent people having misconceptions.
- *Reduce the likelihood* of misconceptions; that surely is not unrealistic.
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- >Also, we prefer to still capitalize it as GNAT :-)
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- Ah, so it's still an acronym.
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- >We discussed having a competition to determine the best after the fact
- >acronym for GNAT (so far we are rather partial to the "Great New Ada
- >Technology" suggestion :-)
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- Ah, a Gnomic New Acronym Tournament...
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- Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.
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