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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa554b78fbc1aa13 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-08 01:18:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!bnewspeer00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!newsfeed.siemens.de!news.mch.sbs.de!not-for-mail From: Alfred Hilscher Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Games? A Newbie question Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:17:59 +0100 Organization: Siemens AG Message-ID: <3C3AB947.971E14AB@icn.siemens.de> References: <98104da8.0112280502.7e0addf3@posting.google.com> <98104da8.0112290447.45934efd@posting.google.com> <%t2Y7.39$wp1.63@www.newsranger.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.21.122.158 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18635 Date: 2002-01-08T10:17:59+01:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article , Georg Bauhaus says... > > > >Ted Dennison 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. :-) > > --- > T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html > > No trees were killed in the sending of this message. > However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.