From: cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!news.den.mmc.com!possum. den.mmc.com!seale@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Eric H Seale)
Subject: Re: Its ADA not Ada after all
Date: 29 Apr 93 16:45:01 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Apr29.164501.19766@den.mmc.com> (raw)
alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
>> According to the Webster NewWorld Dictionary of Computer Terms, 1988
>> edition, ADA is **very** acceptable.
>Well, either we're all wrong - and so is the Ada LRM.
>or Webster's needs a revision.
I vote for option B -- "ADA" would be swell if it were an acronym, but
it ain't. "Ada" is a real-live (if somewhat uncommon) human name, and
ought (IMHO) to be spelled like one.
Eric (not ERIC) Seale
seale@pogo.den.mmc.com
next reply other threads:[~1993-04-29 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1993-04-29 16:45 Eric H Seale [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1993-05-07 13:25 Its ADA not Ada after all Bjarne Stroustrup
1993-05-01 9:49 Andrew Dunstan,,2285592,
1993-04-29 21:42 David Moore
1993-04-29 19:52 Art Duncan
1993-04-29 15:10 Robert Kitzberger
1993-04-29 14:15 David Emery
1993-04-29 2:09 Alex Blakemore
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox