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: "Pat Rogers" Subject: Re: Three simple questions Date: 2000/10/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 680166765 References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 X-Complaints-To: abuse@swbell.net X-Trace: nnrp2.sbc.net 971276339 208.191.184.67 (Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:58:59 CDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:58:59 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: You should have a look at the Rationale document for Ada83. It answers these questions and many like them, apart from the first ("ish' bee ah"). "Frank Christiny" wrote in message news:2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net ... > Friends, > > Having arrived recently into the green Adian world, I am trying to > assimilate all there is to know about this powerful, unfairly > maligned computer language. Most questions I have been able to > answer from the FAQs here and there but there are three (so far) that > have gone unanswered: > > 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? > > 2. What is the rationale for case-insensitivity in the language? > I am beginning to think it is mostly for historical reasons > (some machines didn't have two case letters way back then, etc.). > Are there any real technical reasons for why this is so even > after Ada95, besides preserving backwards compatibilty? > > 3. How can one block-comment in Ada? > It can become cumbersome sometimes, adding all those "--"s in > front of a large block of code one wants to "test out" on the fly. > Again, are there any good technical-engineering reasons why this > feature was left out? > > Regards, > -- > Frank Christiny fchris@pdq.net > Sr. Software Engineer Lockheed Martin Space Operations > Houston, Texas, USA http://freeweb.pdq.net/fchris/ >