From: alex@MIMSY.CS.UMD.EDU (Alex Blakemore)
Subject: Its ADA not Ada after all
Date: 29 Apr 93 02:09:00 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67039@mimsy.umd.edu> (raw)
I criticized one of our excellent admin people for using ADA instead of Ada,
and received the following reply.
> According to the Webster NewWorld Dictionary of Computer Terms, 1988
> edition, ADA is **very** acceptable.
Well, either we're all wrong - and so is the Ada LRM.
or Webster's needs a revision.
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