Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned Aerial System

Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by carlmr on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @08:45AM (#24492096)

Americans really love acronyms that spell out a word.

BASIC is a word, and it means Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

I don't know why you think it's impossible to have an acronym spell a name?

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Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by mitjak on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @09:58AM (#24492750)

lol because it's not an acronym in this case, as stated

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Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by carlmr on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:08AM (#24492843)

The previous poster said it could be both, not that it is both. Apparently a lot of people think it is, which is because it's such a commonplace phenomenon.

That it is a person's name is orthogonal to whether it could be an acronym.

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Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by KingOfCoders on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:27AM (#24493012)

Thank you for making my point clearer than I did ! :-)

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Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by carlmr on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:52AM (#24493255)

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Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by Lucretia9 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:10AM (#24493408)

BASIC / Basic isn't a person's name.

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Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by carlmr on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @11:17AM (#24493472)

Then name your kid Basic and you see that any word can be a name, which makes this a meaningless distinction.

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