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-Thread: 103376,86adf9f3441b35ad X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!o9g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: requeue vs requeue with abort - code example pleaseeee Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:39:11 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2ada6b77-f5f4-424e-8bf8-20eb9252213f@o9g2000pre.googlegroups.com> References: <7bd3db89-ae9d-4e09-9590-676f85dcef9a@w2g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <1hvnr1d2wp3vj$.fnxma3y5cxig.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1292031551 15753 127.0.0.1 (11 Dec 2010 01:39:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 01:39:11 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o9g2000pre.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; .NET4.0C),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15897 Date: 2010-12-10T17:39:11-08:00 List-Id: On Dec 10, 4:46=A0pm, "Peter C. Chapin" wrote: > On 2010-12-10 15:13, Warren wrote: > > > Why they changed the rule for acronyms, beats me though. I liked > > things they way they were. Did capitals get more expensive? > > My understanding is that FORTRAN was officially renamed Fortran during > the deliberations that lead to Fortran 90. I could be wrong about this; > I think I picked up this tidbit while I was lurking on > comp.lang.fortran, but I'm sure everything said there is true. :) Your understanding is consistent with what Wikipedia says. There's no explanation of *why* the change in case, though. My guess is that changing it from all-caps to mostly-lower-case in 1990 was, at heart, a change from proclaiming proudly that one used the language to whispering it, probably out of embarrassment that people were still using such ridiculously out-of-date language technology... :) :) :) -- Adam