From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,808505c9db7d5613 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jerry Petrey Subject: Re: Looking for good Ada95 book Date: 1996/11/04 Message-ID: <327EA5BB.1EFD@gate.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194466342 references: <32723F6A.54A3@dtek.chalmers.se> <32750568.123@essi.fr> <01bbc5d8$a3b24e00$6a9148a6@cornerstone.mydomain.org> <55955a$n04@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <327E3E4D.5107@watson.ibm.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: GP Software - Consultants mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: gpetrey@gate.net newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Date: 1996-11-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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". -- ===================================================================== = Jerry Petrey - Consultant Software Engineer - Member Team Ada = = Rockwell Collins Avionics = = email: home - gpetrey@gate.net work: gdp@mlb.cca.rockwell.com = ===================================================================== -- ===================================================================== = Jerry Petrey - Consultant Software Engineer - Member Team Ada = = Rockwell Collins Avionics = = email: home - gpetrey@gate.net work: gdp@mlb.cca.rockwell.com = = =====================================================================