ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) (02/09/90)
A number of people where I work feel that a naming contest is in order
for the next, presumably object oriented version of the Ada programming
language. The name "Add 1 to Cobol" has been proposed for the OO
version of Cobol, which will presumably be out and in use long before
the new Ada version, and it strikes me as a kind of a shame for
anything, much less the new, modern, foreward-looking answer to all of
mankind's computing needs, to be thus outdone by the second oldest
language out there.
While the name "Ada-9x" is understandable in a way ("Watch the
government spend 9 times as much time and money and take nine times as
long for everything they ever do while the rest of the world
standardizes on C and C++"), I feel that Ada Lovelace, whore though ever
she might have been, never really did anything to deserve having a
government programming language named after her.
I would suggest that, if a proper name is still wanted for the language,
that the name be chosen as that of some person or organization most
notable for swindling his/her/its government; since the names "Wang"
and "Unisys" are already taken, I would suggest the name "Potempkin".
Any other ideas?
Ted Holden
HTE