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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,66bc6b039f1e005d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Keith Thompson Subject: Re: Three simple questions Date: 2000/10/17 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 682665103 Sender: kst@king.cts.com References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39E47BAC.8DB1AD0B@acm.org> <39E71FF3.E4408743@acm.org> <39E73FA4.6BDDF821@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <39EAEEEA.4F58C47C@cepsz.unizar.es> <8sf2k7$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> X-Trace: thoth.cts.com 971826020 85632 205.163.0.22 (17 Oct 2000 23:40:20 GMT) Organization: CTSnet Internet Services Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: abuse@cts.com Date: 2000-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff writes: [...] > I find myself going to some trouble to avoid starting a sentence with a > case-senstive name -- "The 'gcc' command compiles Ada programs.", rather > than "'gcc' compiles Ada programs.", which is ugly, or "'Gcc' compiles > Ada programs.", which is wrong. Or "Adainit should contain the elaboration code for library units." (RM95-B.1(39)) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> Welcome to the last year of the 20th century.