From: tulane!darwin.sura.net!wvnvms.wvnet.edu!un031103@ames.arc.nasa.gov
Subject: Re: It's Ada not ADA.
Date: 6 Dec 92 05:03:22 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1992Dec5.230458.4193@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> (raw)
In article <OLENDER.92Dec4084816@vivaldi.cs.colostate.edu>, olender@vivaldi.cs.
colostate.edu (Kurt Olender) writes:
>
> Kenneth 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 Denta
l
>> Association (among others).
>
> Well, on the other hand, Ada is case-insensitive!
> Perhaps, he's just been reading the LRM too much recently. :-)
>
Very good point. The above comment makes the subject moot.
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1992-12-06 5:03 tulane!darwin.sura.net!wvnvms.wvnet.edu!un031103 [this message]
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1992-12-07 15:49 It's Ada not ADA Charles H. Sampson
1992-12-04 15:48 Kurt Olender
1992-12-04 4:08 Michael Feldman
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