Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!sei!firth From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada, not ADA Message-ID: <3149@bd.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 5 Apr 89 21:09:19 GMT References: <3660012@wdl1.UUCP> <1026@afit-ab.arpa> Reply-To: firth@sei.cmu.edu (pp Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace) Distribution: na Organization: Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 8 Forgive me if you think this too trivial, but: The name of the programming language Mil-Std-1815A is not an acronym, it is a genuine word. Unless there is some special reason for using all upper-case, it should be written "Ada", not "ADA". Thank you