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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6ec8df5df532a28f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s21.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What is Delta?? References: <1147335626.779489.9240@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1147351779.350384.148960@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1147432341.626162.65870@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1147441763.156229.104470@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <0bd9625e9e1eg27a2140e8jp1mli25k61n@4ax.com> <2046116.5ANyppOq9u@linux1.krischik.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.176 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s21 1147630894 12.201.97.176 (Sun, 14 May 2006 18:21:34 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 18:21:34 GMT Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 18:21:34 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4251 Date: 2006-05-14T18:21:34+00:00 List-Id: Keith Thompson wrote: > > And over in comp.lang.c, we spend a significant amount of time asking > people to spell out their words. C is terse; English doesn't have to > be. Perhaps I should have added a smiley to my comments. Anyway, since you have experience with this from c.l.c, maybe you'd like to volunteer for the same role here? -- Jeff Carter "Perfidious English mouse-dropping hoarders." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 10