From: grante@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Ada, not ADA
Date: 6 Apr 89 16:26:52 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7485@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3149@bd.sei.cmu.edu
in article <3149@bd.sei.cmu.edu>, firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) says:
>
> Forgive me if you think this too trivial, but:
>
> The name of the programming language Mil-Std-1815A is not an
> acronym, it is a genuine word. Unless there is some special
> reason for using all upper-case, it should be written "Ada",
> not "ADA".
>
> Thank you
Damn right!
And while we're on the subject, Pascal is also named
after a person. That is why only the *first* letter of
the name is upper case. As far as I know, ADA stands for
the American Dental Association. I haven't seen anything
which has the acronym PASCAL.
People who insist on writing ADA and PASCAL probably also
pronounce the word "nuclear" as if it were spelled "nucular"
(but that's a peeve of another color)
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1989-03-21 19:36 SAIC Ada Binding Bug Fix Raymond Tom
1989-04-05 13:31 ` ADA its use in real time systems Allan P. Callaghan
1989-04-05 21:09 ` Ada, not ADA Robert Firth
1989-04-06 16:26 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
1989-04-10 16:48 ` John Stafford
1989-04-11 18:56 ` John Wolf
1989-04-25 17:23 ` Don Cameron
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