Re: Caselessness...

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3BCDA863.1C27DDC4@amsjv.com>, Philip Anderson says...
>
>Ted Dennison wrote:
>> 
>> perhaps also insane but often effective). Of course the relevant example 
>> here is ADA (acronym for American Dental Association, Americans with 
>> Disabilities Act, and many many more) and Ada (the name of many people, a 
>> city in Oklahoma, and the world's best programming language).
>
>So writing ADA (or Ada) is still ambiguous.  That's the way English (and
>every other language) is, there is always some ambiguity to be solved by
>context (and redundancy).

True. However, ambiguity isn't the issue here; its correctness. The word "mad"
many have several meanings, but none of them are "mutually-assured destruction".
The word "ADA" also has several meanings, but none of them are a programming
language.

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