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: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-16 15:20:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!west.cox.net!cox.net!p02!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0D0ED5.30108@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada paper critic References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:19:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1024265999 68.12.51.201 (Sun, 16 Jun 2002 18:19:59 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 18:19:59 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26094 Date: 2002-06-16T22:19:59+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > ALL_CAPS *was* the recommended style for Ada 83. > So it doesn't go back to punch cards and the like. By whom? We never used all caps on any of the 4 large Ada 83 projects I worked on. Since the first one was the first project anyone there had ever done in Ada, and mixed case was in the project standard, I have to think we got it from somewhere else.