Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!jeffd From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Language Naming Contest Message-ID: Date: 12 Feb 90 12:27:28 GMT References: <19359@grebyn.com> Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 17 In article <19359@grebyn.com>, ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) writes: > 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 > 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, didn't Potempkin construct those villages on *behalf* of his government, to fool *foreign* visitors? I'm certainly not condoning his actions - just trying to set things straight (if, that is, my memory is correct). In fact, didn't the Russians name a warship after him? Or was that just in a movie? -- Thank you for not coercing.