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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dweller@linus.rivatech.com (David Weller) Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!! Date: 1997/11/21 Message-ID: <3475c06c.0@news.randori.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 291373234 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34738872.783@gsg.eds.com> <650kf8$smt$1@helios.crest.nt.com> <01bcf5c2$c4dfe7c0$0200000a@kld_mcs> Followup-To: alt.silly.nonsense Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <01bcf5c2$c4dfe7c0$0200000a@kld_mcs>, Mike Smith wrote: >Kaz Kylheku wrote in article ><650kf8$smt$1@helios.crest.nt.com>... >> >or some >> such thing. > >They're both acronyms, but I've seen them widely (couldn't help digging up >that word again ;-) used without capitalization. Sort of like scuba, which >is an acronym, but is very often not capitalized. > >--Mike Smith And the opposite of Ada, which should never be written in all caps, but often is by those that don't understand it's a proper name, not an acronym (at least whilst speaking of programming languages). -- RIVA Technologies: Eschewing Obfuscation through Manipulexity and Whipitupitude Visual Applications and Simulation. Also specializing in migrating projects from Ada83 (Rational/Verdix/SunAda) to Ada95 (GNAT-family).