From: Jerry Petrey <gpetrey@gate.net>
Subject: Re: Looking for good Ada95 book
Date: 1996/11/04
Date: 1996-11-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <327EA5BB.1EFD@gate.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 327E3E4D.5107@watson.ibm.com
Norman H. Cohen wrote:
>
> Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> > In the case of Ada, the original RM encouraged an ALL_CAPS style for
> > identifiers that many adopted, but many found intolerable because they
> > FELT IT WAS LIKE SHOUTING!
>
> More important to me than any sense of being shouted at was the fact
> that confining yourself to one case, when the language rules allow
> either upper or lower case, is throwing away an opportunity for
> expressiveness.
>
> Why write CHANNELS_ALLOCATED_TO_CBS and make your reader wonder whether
> you meant Channels_Allocated_To_CBS or Channels_Allocated_To_CBs?
>
> (For those outside the US, CBS is a television network and CBs are
> Citizens Band radios.)
>
> --
> Norman H. Cohen
> mailto:ncohen@watson.ibm.com
> http://www.research.ibm.com/people/n/ncohen
I agree with Norman on this but unfortunately automatic formatters and
many people will only write Channels_Allocated_To_Cbs, capitalizing
only the the first letter of each word even when some are acronyms
and should be in all caps.
In any case, I think Feldman's book is still a very good book for
its intended audience, in spite of this difference in style.
Other great books are: Norman's "Ada 95 as a Second Language",
Naiditch's "Rendezvous with Ada 95", Smith's "O-O Software in Ada 95"
and, of course, Barnes' "Programming in Ada 95".
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-26 0:00 Looking for good Ada95 book Lars Lundgren
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Rapicault Pascal
[not found] ` <01bbc5d8$a3b24e00$6a9148a6@cornerstone.mydomain.org>
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Mark Shaw
1996-11-06 0:00 ` James Thiele
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey [this message]
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Silliness (was: Looking for good Ada95 book) Adam Beneschan
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1996-11-08 0:00 ` bill.williams
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Looking for good Ada95 book Michael Feldman
1996-11-10 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-11-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Capitalization Entropy (was: Looking for good Ada95 book) Scott James
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Looking for good Ada95 book Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Richard Pattis
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Do-While Jones
1996-11-20 0:00 ` John English
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-21 0:00 ` FerretWoman
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Testing teaching belief? Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Debora Weber-Wulff
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Looking for good Ada95 book Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Tom Pastuszak
1996-11-04 0:00 ` John English
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Wolfgang Gellerich
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1996-11-12 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
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