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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: ada paper critic
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:15:12 -0400
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The Ada83 reference manual tended to use all caps for identifiers - not
exactly a "recommendation" but it was the fashionable thing to do (mimmic
the LRM). And its really important to remember that as Ada was emerging into
the light of day, there was still a lot of equipment out in the world that
didn't support lower case. (Line printers being a common example.) Hence it
was quite common at that time for programs in other languages (like Fortran
and Cobol) to be all upper case. Ada style back then was just a reflection
of what was commonly done elsewhere. (To this day, C fashion for things
created with #define is to use all caps.)

But just as women's clothing fashions change on a regular basis, so to do
coding styles. :-)

MDC
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"AG" <a_n_g@x_t_r_a.c_o.n_z> wrote in message
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>
> Sorry, could you comment on this a bit more?
> I know it was a stated requirement that any
> program *can* be written in all capitals, but
> recommended?
>
>