----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Pouzin" <pouzin@email.enst.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. ===== Thanks for the name...we partly named a programming language after it....C@T http://www.ddj.com/articles/1993/9310/ http://www.computer.org/software/so1991/s3073abs.htm C@T is also aka CALICO as in a C@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