[Info-vax] Nomenclature, pt. 2 [was Re: VMS survivability]

[Dave Froble]

On 2/23/2023 8:10 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-02-22, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 2/22/2023 8:11 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> People also write ADA instead of Ada, and unlike, say, Fortran, it was
>>> never called ADA.
>>
>> I truly detest case sensitivity ....
>>
>
> Case sensitivity is not involved. Ada is the name of a person, and as
> such, the normal conventions apply when writing it.
>
> Simon.
>

Simon is conventional, however, people recognize simon, SIMON, sIMON, simoN, and 
such.  With case sensitivity, to a computer, Simon is not the same as SIMON.

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