From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: ada paper critic
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:52:52 GMT
Date: 2002-06-18T13:52:52+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccvg8gzoaz.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: aekqti$su8$1@nh.pace.co.uk
"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:
> The Ada83 reference manual tended to use all caps for identifiers - not
> exactly a "recommendation"
Hey, you're right. I must have been thinking of RM83-1.5(13), which
makes a specific recommendation about indentation style. But I don't
see any recommended casing style (other than the fact that they use a
certain style).
>... 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.)
But that can't explain it, because they used lower-case boldface for
reserved words.
Some of those printers *could* support boldface, by backspacing and
overprinting. ;-)
By the way, is it true that Algol 60 and/or Algol 68 was font-sensitive
(i.e. "reserved words" are distinguished by being in boldface)?
- Bob
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2002-06-14 19:42 ada paper critic Gautier no_direct_reply_please
2002-06-15 15:08 ` Simon Wright
2002-06-15 22:52 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-16 0:38 ` AG
2002-06-17 14:15 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-18 13:52 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2002-06-18 15:41 ` Darren New
2002-06-18 18:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-19 1:04 ` Rod Haper
2002-06-27 2:46 ` lowercase, was " David Thompson
2002-06-28 12:52 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-16 22:19 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-16 23:02 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-17 7:07 ` Kevin Cline
2002-06-18 20:54 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-18 22:15 ` Larry Kilgallen
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2002-06-14 22:28 Gautier direct_replies_not_read
2002-06-15 14:43 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 22:18 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-06-15 1:38 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-14 22:08 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-06-14 20:36 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-06-14 21:34 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-15 4:14 ` Lyle McKennot
2002-06-14 20:06 Gautier no_direct_reply_please
2002-06-14 20:48 ` Baugereau
2002-06-15 14:38 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 14:31 Alderson, Paul A.
2002-06-14 15:16 ` Darren New
2002-06-14 15:58 ` Andrew Maizels
2002-06-14 17:00 ` chris.danx
2002-06-14 18:44 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-14 20:26 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 22:06 ` Ehud Lamm
2002-06-14 22:01 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 22:38 ` sk
2002-06-15 11:28 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-15 18:10 ` sk
2002-06-15 14:30 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-15 17:36 ` sk
2002-06-16 3:08 ` Gautier
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2002-06-16 21:05 ` Gautier
2002-06-14 23:10 ` tmoran
2002-06-15 14:19 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-15 23:04 ` Darren New
2002-06-15 23:38 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 10:56 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-17 19:56 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-06-17 20:47 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-18 18:10 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-06-18 18:51 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-18 19:08 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-18 20:47 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-19 5:28 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-18 14:01 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-14 20:58 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 21:30 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-15 1:24 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-15 3:02 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-15 21:54 ` AG
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2002-06-14 1:28 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 1:43 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 4:53 ` David Marceau
2002-06-14 6:40 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 6:49 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-14 12:18 ` Baugereau
2002-06-14 16:30 ` David Marceau
2002-06-14 17:34 ` Baugereau
2002-06-14 19:01 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-14 19:43 ` Baugereau
2002-06-15 3:02 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-15 9:49 ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-17 15:53 ` Dan Andreatta
2002-06-17 18:20 ` Pascal Obry
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2002-06-17 21:18 ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-16 21:52 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 20:02 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 3:14 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 4:35 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 8:05 ` David Marceau
2002-06-14 12:31 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 15:08 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 0:17 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-14 19:05 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-16 3:34 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16 3:32 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 8:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-06-14 12:19 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 14:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-06-14 15:09 ` Darren New
2002-06-16 22:49 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-06-16 15:07 ` Jim Rogers
2002-06-17 4:06 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 4:52 ` Jim Rogers
2002-06-17 9:45 ` David Marceau
2002-06-17 15:42 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 3:59 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 22:19 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-06-14 12:58 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-14 22:16 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-15 1:22 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-15 0:51 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-15 11:49 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-15 21:45 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-14 14:59 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-16 3:27 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16 22:18 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-16 22:38 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 15:00 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 20:13 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-14 18:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-15 22:03 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-16 1:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-16 3:19 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16 22:20 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-17 1:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-17 2:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
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