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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa554b78fbc1aa13 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-04 16:11:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Why people capitalise "Ada"? (Was: Games? A Newbie question) Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 01:11:04 +0100 Organization: Centre for Chaos and Turbulence Studies, Niels Bohr Institute Message-ID: <3C364498.654EF04E@nbi.dk> References: <98104da8.0112280502.7e0addf3@posting.google.com> <98104da8.0112290447.45934efd@posting.google.com> <%t2Y7.39$wp1.63@www.newsranger.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: alf.nbi.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 1010189464 17320 130.225.212.55 (5 Jan 2002 00:11:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 00:11:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) X-Accept-Language: fo,da,no,sv,is,de,fr,en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18569 Date: 2002-01-05T01:11:04+01:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > In article <98104da8.0112290447.45934efd@posting.google.com>, Enrico A. says... > >> BTW: Ada, not being an acronym, is not capitalized. Where did you get the idea that it was? > > > >No, I know that Ada is not an acronym. I've just made a mistake. I > >know the Ada's history since i was 18 i think... ok but Errare Humanum > >Est (perserverare diabolicum) ! :o) > > I understand. Its just that this particular error seems to be endemic among > newbies who would never dream of calling Java "JAVA". So I really am curious > where it comes from. Could it be because computer users are so used to three letter acronyms, that whenever they run into a three letter word their reflexes make them write it capitalised (as an acronym)? Jacob -- "Vi f�r ikke andet sk�g end det vi selv kan finde p�."