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: 103376,66bc6b039f1e005d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Frank Christiny Subject: Re: Three simple questions Date: 2000/10/09 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 679539538 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39e2588f.21565740@news.demon.co.uk> X-Orig-Message-ID: <39E283F0.F43969CE@pdq.net> X-Accept-Language: en,es Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Time: Mon Oct 9 19:48:49 2000 Organization: PDQ.net (using Airnews.net!) NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library2.airnews.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Abuse-Reports-To: abuse at pdq.net to report improper postings Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John McCabe wrote: > > Frank Christiny wrote: > > >1. What is the correct pronunciation of Dr. Ichbiah's name? > > Is the "ch" pronounced as in "Loch" or as in "each"? Is the > > final "h" is silent? > > Does it matter? Yes, if you want to give accurate presentations on Ada and its rich history, or simply, just to know. > >2. What is the rationale for case-insensitivity in the language? > > At least one reason is for safety against misspelling. [snip] Whoa! So you are saying the original designers of the language actually sat down and decided the majority of us programmers were dislexic or something? I am sure there is more to it than that! > >3. How can one block-comment in Ada? > > You can't. [snip] > This is another safety issue. If you want to comment out regions of > code use something like ada-mode with Emacs. > > Hope this helps. Sure Does. Thanks! -- Frank Christiny fchris@pdq.net Sr. Software Engineer Lockheed Martin Space Operations Houston, Texas, USA http://freeweb.pdq.net/fchris/