From: jws@hpcljws.HP.COM (John Stafford)
Subject: Re: Ada, not ADA
Date: 10 Apr 89 16:48:56 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <920011@hpcljws.HP.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3149@bd.sei.cmu.edu
I once complained to Time Magazine about their use of PASCAL and got a
nice letter back saying that they were just doing what "Charles Sippl's
Computer Dictionary" (or something like that) said. I had seen that
dictionary and had noted numerous errors in it myself, but it didn't
seem worth the effort to point that out. After all they were Time
magazine and what a (dubious) computer dictionary said was more
important than standard English usage (and it no doubt made them feel
"with it" in a high-tech sense to have such a authority).
Oh yes, ADA is also the American Diabetes Association (and no doubt
other organizations as well).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1989-04-10 16:48 UTC|newest]
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
1989-04-10 16:48 ` John Stafford [this message]
1989-04-11 18:56 ` John Wolf
1989-04-25 17:23 ` Don Cameron
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