Three simple questions

[Frank Christiny <fchris@pdq.net>]

Friends,

Having arrived recently into the green Adian world, I am trying to
assimilate all there is to know about this powerful, unfairly
maligned computer language.  Most questions I have been able to
answer from the FAQs here and there but there are three (so far) that
have gone unanswered:

1.  What is the correct pronunciation of Dr. Ichbiah's name?
    Is the "ch" pronounced as in "Loch" or as in "each"?  Is the
    final "h" is silent?

2.  What is the rationale for case-insensitivity in the language?
    I am beginning to think it is mostly for historical reasons
    (some machines didn't have two case letters way back then, etc.).
    Are there any real technical reasons for why this is so even
    after Ada95, besides preserving backwards compatibilty?

3.  How can one block-comment in Ada?
    It can become cumbersome sometimes, adding all those "--"s in
    front of a large block of code one wants to "test out" on the fly.
    Again, are there any good technical-engineering reasons why this
    feature was left out?

Regards,
-- 
Frank Christiny                       fchris@pdq.net
Sr. Software Engineer                 Lockheed Martin Space Operations
Houston, Texas, USA                   http://freeweb.pdq.net/fchris/