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From: Jerry Callen
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 1990 03:43

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In article <65796@sgi.sgi.com> rpw3@sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
>How about Ada?  "Ada" is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department
>of Defense. The particular rules they have laid on that are that you may
>not call your compiler "Ada" unless it passes some sort of "Ada validation
>suite". This is to keep the language "pure"...

No any more. DoD gave up the trademark. [I wonder if there is any truth to the 
rumor that the trademark of the American Dental Association (ADA) had something
to do with this?]

DoD now has a special "validation symbol" (a "service mark?") that may only
be displayed by validated compilers.

-- Jerry Callen, Ada runtime dude
   jcallen@encore.com

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From: jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: protected languages
Summary: "Ada" is no longer a DoD trademark
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Date: 1 Aug 90 03:43:02 GMT
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