From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f43e6,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-26 12:05:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!newsgate.cistron.nl!news2.euro.net!lightspeed.eweka.nl!62.45.52.242.MISMATCH!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!195.129.110.21.MISMATCH!bnewsfeed00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewsinpeer01.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!ash.uu.net!spool.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:05:35 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030917 Thunderbird/0.3a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ISO Studies of underscores vs MixedCase in Ada or C++ References: <2cfd1a4e.0309252032.3e3c0a1a@posting.google.com> <3F7467CB.4EAF48AD@raytheon.com> <1064595105.242807@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1064603135.222973@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@aphelion.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1064603135 17887 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.software-eng:20812 comp.programming:63340 comp.lang.c++:245197 comp.lang.ada:43016 Date: 2003-09-26T15:05:35-04:00 List-Id: Mike Smith wrote: > Yes, it's possible to take it *too* far. But I *was* able to read the > quoted text at maybe half the speed at which I could have read it if it > were spelled correctly. And the text in Randy King's post is even more > readable than that - I can read it at almost full speed. Which clearly means that the first/last letter thing isn't the only factor in comprehension.