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Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> I don't have my Ada83 reference manual handy, but IIRC, it said "Language
> Reference Manual" on the cover somewhere in the title. I think that's why
> "LRM" got started - maybe someone with a hardcopy handy can check? Anyway,
> I'll bet it was changed specifically because LRM could - as you observe -
> refer to any language.

The title is "Reference Manual for the Ada Programming Language". It has
a green cover; perhaps that will call it to mind. Every page still has
"ARM" at the top, which is why I've been using "ARM" since 1984, unless
we can reach a consensus to use "RMFTAPL".

> "Jeffrey Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
> news:3C5F3817.AE9080FA@acm.org...
> >
> > Every page of ANSI/MIL-STD 1815A (the Ada-83 RM) has "ARM" at the top.
> > It meant "Ada Reference Manual" then and it still does. LRM? Could refer
> > to any language.
> >

-- 
Jeffrey Carter