* Its ADA not Ada after all
@ 1993-04-29 2:09 Alex Blakemore
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From: Alex Blakemore @ 1993-04-29 2:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
I criticized one of our excellent admin people for using ADA instead of Ada,
and received the following reply.
> 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.
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* Re: Its ADA not Ada after all
@ 1993-04-29 14:15 David Emery
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From: David Emery @ 1993-04-29 14:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
Remember, "Ada" is a proper name, while FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC are
acronyms. (What does that make "C"?)
dave
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* Re: Its ADA not Ada after all
@ 1993-04-29 15:10 Robert Kitzberger
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From: Robert Kitzberger @ 1993-04-29 15:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery) writes:
>Remember, "Ada" is a proper name, while FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC are
>acronyms. (What does that make "C"?)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Of course, it's a self-referential acronym...
.Bob.
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* Re: Its ADA not Ada after all
@ 1993-04-29 16:45 Eric H Seale
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From: Eric H Seale @ 1993-04-29 16:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* Re: Its ADA not Ada after all
@ 1993-04-29 19:52 Art Duncan
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From: Art Duncan @ 1993-04-29 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <EMERY.93Apr29091552@goldfinger.mitre.org>, emery@goldfinger.mitre.o
rg (David Emery) writes:
|> Remember, "Ada" is a proper name, while FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC are
|> acronyms. (What does that make "C"?)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The successor of "B".
|> dave
- Art
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* Re: Its ADA not Ada after all
@ 1993-04-29 21:42 David Moore
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From: David Moore @ 1993-04-29 21:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article 8Js@crdnns.crd.ge.com, duncan@sunup.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Art Duncan
) writes:
>In article <EMERY.93Apr29091552@goldfinger.mitre.org>, emery@goldfinger.mitre.
org (David Emery) writes:
>|> Remember, "Ada" is a proper name, while FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC are
>|> acronyms. (What does that make "C"?)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>The successor of "B".
>
Which ought to have been followed by P but was actually followed by C++.
The sequence, of course, is BCPL - Basic Cambridge Programming Language.
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* Re: Its ADA not Ada after all
@ 1993-05-01 9:49 Andrew Dunstan,,2285592,
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From: Andrew Dunstan,,2285592, @ 1993-05-01 9:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
>From article <C69GJ6.8Js@crdnns.crd.ge.com>, by duncan@sunup.NoSubdomain.NoDom
ain (Art Duncan):
> |> Remember, "Ada" is a proper name, while FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC are
> |> acronyms. (What does that make "C"?)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> The successor of "B".
>
Or, as we say in Ada:
Language'succ('B')
:-)
keep smiling
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* Re: Its ADA not Ada after all
@ 1993-05-07 13:25 Bjarne Stroustrup
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From: Bjarne Stroustrup @ 1993-05-07 13:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
> In article 8Js@crdnns.crd.ge.com, duncan@sunup.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Art Dun
can) writes:
> >In article <EMERY.93Apr29091552@goldfinger.mitre.org>, emery@goldfinger.mit
re.org (David Emery) writes:
> >|> Remember, "Ada" is a proper name, while FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC are
> >|> acronyms. (What does that make "C"?)
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >The successor of "B".
> >
> Which ought to have been followed by P but was actually followed by C++.
>
> The sequence, of course, is BCPL - Basic Cambridge Programming Language.
BCPL is Basic CPL where CPL has had several interpretations over the years.
C==Cambridge is one but after CPL became a joint project with Imperial
College London C==Combined was a more polite interpretation. Real old-times
point to C==Christopher (Stratchy) as the most reasonable interpretation.
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