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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,87555f9f9a68a23a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-17 09:56:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3BCB2FDA.8060807@look.ca> <3BCDA863.1C27DDC4@amsjv.com> Subject: Re: Caselessness... Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:55:41 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:55:41 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14832 Date: 2001-10-17T16:55:41+00:00 List-Id: 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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.