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: 103376,30e3597af28a3026 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: Simple algorithmic question I hope :-) Date: 1999/11/02 Message-ID: <381F1062.A564DAFD@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 543557862 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7uuuba$8s4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <19991025071337.29192.00000857@ng-fa1.aol.com> <7v255q$eth$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7va4ns$898$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3818BDC9.D8CF1D3B@callnetuk.com> <7vc9f4$oct$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3819B903.869AE362@lanl.gov> X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@icg.raytheon.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 941559916 151.168.144.162 (Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:25:16 CST) Organization: Raytheon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:25:16 CST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > ..... Under this standard pronouncable acronyms have an initial > capital, but the rest lower case, and unpronounceable ones all caps. But what puzzles me is why some (not all) make a point of writing "Fortran," yet continue to also write "COBOL" One such person has even lectured us on the "pronounceable" rule. :-)