Re: Games? A Newbie question

[Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <a145q2$hht$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>, Georg Bauhaus says...
> >
> >Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> >: I understand. Its just that this particular error seems to be endemic among
> >: newbies who would never dream of calling Java "JAVA". So I really am curious
> >: where it comes from.

So maybe this is a reason: Many pepole know the island Java so they know
that "Java" is a name. But the name "Ada" is not very common (at least
here where I life). In fact I never heard it before I started with Ada.
So one could assume that Ada is just an acronym like COBOL or FORTRAN.
If the language would have been called "Augusta" the I think nobody
would write AUGUSTA.

> >
> >Look at book covers from  the 80s :-)
> 
> First off, a newbie isn't likely to come across such a book, as they are all out
> of print now.

A friend of mine just starts with Ada. Some of his books are still from
the early 80th when we had studied.
 
> Secondly, I tested that theory a couple of years ago when I worked with a guy I
> like to call "the library". (I think Jeff Bezos sends him Christmas cards). He
> had no less than 11 different Ada books, many of them out of print Ada83 books.
> I have a couple of the latter myself. Not *one* of them capitalized Ada that

I've look to my bookshelf and many of my early book wrote it that way.
And my first reference manual is titled "ADA REFERENCE  ANS-MIL-STD
1815A".

> way. The only incorrect capitalization I could find was a book by John English
> that spelled it "ada". :-) So if a person got "ADA" somewhere, it certainly
> wasn't from an Ada book.

I took a look on Amazon and found:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471012769/qid=1010480247/br=1-4/ref=br_lf_b_4/002-9221151-1373622
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0309055970/qid=1010480366/br=1-18/ref=br_lf_b_18/002-9221151-1373622
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130040789/qid=1010480464/br=1-8/ref=br_lf_b_8/002-9221151-1373622
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0132049678/qid=1010480552/br=1-20/ref=br_lf_b_20/002-9221151-1373622

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/085312535X/qid=1010479521/sr=1-124/ref=sr_1_66_125/002-9221151-1373622
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130459496/qid=1010479713/sr=1-186/ref=sr_1_2_187/002-9221151-1373622
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201137925/qid=1010479713/sr=1-199/ref=sr_1_2_200/002-9221151-1373622
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387126953/qid=1010479897/sr=1-241/ref=sr_1_2_242/002-9221151-1373622
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9992080418//ref=sr_1_0_376/002-9221151-1373622

And book with "ada" instead "Ada":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201403633/qid=1010480247/br=1-8/ref=br_lf_b_8/002-9221151-1373622
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0132303507/qid=1010480366/br=1-6/ref=br_lf_b_6/002-9221151-1373622 

> p.s. I just took a visit to "the library" for a refresher. He's down to 9
> different Ada books now, but I think some may have been lent out. :-)
> 
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