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Date: 29 Apr 93 16:45:01 GMT
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den.mmc.com!seale@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Eric H Seale)
Subject: Re: Its ADA not Ada after all
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alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
>> According to the Webster NewWorld Dictionary of Computer Terms, 1988
>> edition, ADA is **very** acceptable.
>Well, either we're all wrong - and so is the Ada LRM.
>or Webster's needs a revision.

I vote for option B -- "ADA" would be swell if it were an acronym, but
it ain't.  "Ada" is a real-live (if somewhat uncommon) human name, and
ought (IMHO) to be spelled like one.

Eric (not ERIC) Seale
seale@pogo.den.mmc.com