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: 103376,808505c9db7d5613 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: Looking for good Ada95 book Date: 1996/11/24 Message-ID: <578rbq$3l4@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 198385133 references: <32723F6A.54A3@dtek.chalmers.se> <56b275$6k4@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <572lhs$emg@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> <5730tc$1o9$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: >If keywords are upper case, and other words are Mixed case, I would have >expected that to be *harder*, because then you have to look at the 2nd >letter to see whether it's a keyword or not, whereas with the LRM/AQ&S >style, it is always enough to look at the 1st letter. People don't read one letter at a time. If you show someone a word for a very brief time period, my guess is that they will probably have more chance of noticing whether the word is in ALL UPPERCASE than they have of telling you whether the first letter was uppercase. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.