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Date: 4 Dec 92 04:08:50 GMT
From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net  (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: It's Ada not ADA.
Message-ID: <1992Dec4.040850.22791@seas.gwu.edu>
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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