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!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!24.30.200.11!news-east.rr.com!news-feed-01.rdc-kc.rr.com!news.rr.com!cyclone2.kc.rr.com!news2.kc.rr.com!tornado.socal.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail 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> From: Keith Thompson Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:41dl7TS0PhLAQd/1uay1nG3esmI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 02:29:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.136.120 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: tornado.socal.rr.com 1147573752 66.75.136.120 (Sat, 13 May 2006 19:29:12 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 19:29:12 PDT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4238 Date: 2006-05-14T02:29:12+00:00 List-Id: "Jeffrey R. Carter" writes: > 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. For what it's worth, C will certainly flag an attempt to refer to something declared as "You" as "u" (it will also flag an attempt to refer to it as "you" or "YOU". And over in comp.lang.c, we spend a significant amount of time asking people to spell out their words. C is terse; English doesn't have to be. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.