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,a839d8c4163b5054 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) Subject: Re: What's ADA? Date: 1996/05/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 152623876 references: <31888e94.20333789@news.saipan.com> <4maead$qb2@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> <4maj9u$kov@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-05-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4maj9u$kov@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>, Norman H. Cohen wrote: >And don't forget: > > air defense artillery > ... And "Always Demanding Accuracy" in case conventions. ;-) Why do advocates of a case-insensitive language make such a big deal about the case in which the name of that language is spelled? How many people who might have tried Ada were turned off when the first question they asked about it was answered with these pedantic admonishments?! - Bob P.S. I was amused when somebody really did post a question about the American Disabilities Act, thinking this was the right place.