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!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s72.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: <2046116.5ANyppOq9u@linux1.krischik.com> 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_s72 1147549646 12.201.97.176 (Sat, 13 May 2006 19:47:26 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 19:47:26 GMT Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 19:47:26 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4235 Date: 2006-05-13T19:47:26+00:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik wrote: > > I don't object to the spelling. I object to the general attitude of the > posting. The commanding tone, unneeded use abbreviations, missing proof of > foregoing efforts etc. pp. And it is not the only post. I found the tone generally off-putting as well, but my reaction was simply not to respond. As for such things as "u" for "you", SW engineering requires an emphasis on ease of reading over ease of writing, and such usages indicate the opposite emphasis. You may be able to get away with such things in languages such as C, but in Ada, using "u" for "You" will generally result in a compilation error. -- Jeff Carter "Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted, people stampeded, and cattle raped." Blazing Saddles 35