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: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Three simple questions Date: 2000/10/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 682138378 References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 971717684 216.44.122.34 (Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:34:44 GMT) Organization: LJK Software NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:34:44 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert A Duff writes: > I find myself going to some trouble to avoid starting a sentence with a > case-senstive name -- "The 'gcc' command compiles Ada programs.", rather > than "'gcc' compiles Ada programs.", which is ugly, or "'Gcc' compiles > Ada programs.", which is wrong. Isn't it only wrong on case-sensitive operating systems ?