From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: It's Ada not ADA.
Date: 4 Dec 92 04:08:50 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1992Dec4.040850.22791@seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
In article <9212031322.aa23965@Paris.ics.uci.edu> kanderso@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU (K
enneth Anderson) writes:
>Call me a geek if you will, but I really hate it when someone consistently
>capitalizes the letters of Ada. I.E. ADA. Ada is not an acronym, it is a name
.
>Thus you capitalize the first letter and leave the other two in lowercase.
>Ada is a programming language, ADA stands for the American Dental Association
>(among others).
like the Americans with Disabilities Act.
>
>Sorry for the wasted bandwidth, but this really annoys me!
>
This geek agrees with you. Let's not be too harsh on real Ada novices,
but the guy who spelled it ADA in a recent post should have known better.
Mike Feldman
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1992-12-04 4:08 Michael Feldman [this message]
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1992-12-04 15:48 It's Ada not ADA Kurt Olender
1992-12-06 5:03 tulane!darwin.sura.net!wvnvms.wvnet.edu!un031103
1992-12-07 15:49 Charles H. Sampson
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