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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.realtime
- Subject: Re: ADA to C converter, the dream ?
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 12:48:49 -0500
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- T.E.D. says
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- "I feel the momentum for changing Gnat's name building..."
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- Well, we don't :-) We have no intention of changing the name.
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- 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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- Also, we prefer to still capitalize it as GNAT :-)
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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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