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From: "Louis Pouzin" <pouzin(_at_)email(_dot_)enst(_dot_)fr>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 9:48 PM
Subject: re: Cluster Addressing and CIDR
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 02:59:09 +0100, J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
Louis, some old pre-IETFquestions. What was "cata" standing for?
It's mispelled. The word is "catenet". Obvious origin: latin catena -> chain;
french: caténaire; english: catena, catenation.
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Thanks for the name...we partly named a programming language after
it(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)C(_at_)T
http://www.ddj.com/articles/1993/9310/
http://www.computer.org/software/so1991/s3073abs.htm
C(_at_)T is also aka CALICO as in a C(_at_)T of Many Colors...
...and also C+@ because of the addition of the @ operator from Smalltalk to C...
Someday I may tell people the whole story behind it...
...but, 8 years of work resulted in Sun "studying it" and announcing Java...
...and now we have Microsoft with C#...
...instead of Go-Mono....maybe it should be Go Figure...
http://www.go-mono.com