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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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Subject: Re: Games? A Newbie question
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In article <a145q2$hht$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>, Georg Bauhaus says...
>
>Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
>: I understand. Its just that this particular error seems to be endemic among
>: newbies who would never dream of calling Java "JAVA". So I really am curious
>: where it comes from.
>
>Look at book covers from  the 80s :-)

First off, a newbie isn't likely to come across such a book, as they are all out
of print now.

Secondly, I tested that theory a couple of years ago when I worked with a guy I
like to call "the library". (I think Jeff Bezos sends him Christmas cards). He
had no less than 11 different Ada books, many of them out of print Ada83 books.
I have a couple of the latter myself. Not *one* of them capitalized Ada that
way. The only incorrect capitalization I could find was a book by John English
that spelled it "ada". :-) So if a person got "ADA" somewhere, it certainly
wasn't from an Ada book.

p.s. I just took a visit to "the library" for a refresher. He's down to 9
different Ada books now, but I think some may have been lent out. :-)

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