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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Games? A Newbie question
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:52:43 GMT
Date: 2001-12-31T18:52:43+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <%t2Y7.39$wp1.63@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 98104da8.0112290447.45934efd@posting.google.com

In article <98104da8.0112290447.45934efd@posting.google.com>, Enrico A. says...
>> BTW: Ada, not being an acronym, is not capitalized. Where did you get the idea that it was?
>
>No, I know that Ada is not an acronym. I've just made a mistake. I
>know the Ada's history since i was 18 i think... ok but Errare Humanum
>Est (perserverare diabolicum) ! :o)

I understand. Its just that this particular error seems to be endemic among
newbies who would never dream of calling Java "JAVA". So I really am curious
where it comes from.

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-31 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-28  0:53 Games? A Newbie question Gautier Write-only-address
2001-12-28 13:02 ` Enrico A.
2001-12-28 15:28   ` Michal Nowak
2001-12-29 21:21     ` Liddle Feesh
2001-12-29 22:32       ` Michal Nowak
2001-12-29 22:34         ` Liddle Feesh
2001-12-30  0:20           ` Michal Nowak
2001-12-30  0:41             ` Liddle Feesh
     [not found]   ` <200112281628260350.00DF1BEE@smtp-po.inetia.pl>
2001-12-28 16:04     ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-12-28 16:09   ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-29 12:47     ` Enrico A.
2001-12-31 18:52       ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2002-01-04 12:05         ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-01-04 14:24           ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08  9:17             ` Alfred Hilscher
2002-01-08 14:24               ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-08 15:20               ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08 17:01                 ` Alfred Hilscher
2002-01-08 17:11                   ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08 17:46                     ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-08 18:08                       ` James Rogers
2002-01-08 18:26                         ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-05  0:11         ` Why people capitalise "Ada"? (Was: Games? A Newbie question) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2002-01-07 16:28           ` Why people capitalise Ted Dennison
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2001-12-29 10:17 Games? A Newbie question Gautier Write-only-address
2001-12-27 11:51 Enrico A.
2001-12-27 19:44 ` chris.danx
2001-12-29 21:17   ` tmoran
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