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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Looking for good Ada95 book
Date: 1996/11/04
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In article <55kmtp$3s3@top.mitre.org>, mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner) writes:
>     > With Ada 95, we have something approaching a real consensus on style (use
>     > lower case for keywords and Capitalized_Identifiers_With_Underscores). I
>     > think this consensus is valuable for the community,
> 
> I was not asked what my opinion was before forming this imaginary
> consensus, and I feel that we should reject all nonsense standards
> such as capitalization that take time away from making a program
> semantically correct (solving the problem correctly) and making
> it efficient. If a standard is going to become a consensus, it 
> should capitalize like almost all languages on Earth that have
> capitals do: only acronyms and the first letter of each computer
> program are capitals, all others are small letters. But most 
> importantly, do not make standards without the consent of the 
> victims who will be subjected to the tyrrany of those standards. 
> If I am not permitted input into the process, then the process
> Must not be construed to effect me.

Although adding underscores is problematic, it seems to me that
for programs on a computer letting each reader view them with
their preferred capitalization should be a trivial extension
to an editor which already does syntax coloring.

Larry Kilgallen