From: "William B. Clodius" <wclodius@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: Simple algorithmic question I hope :-)
Date: 1999/10/29
Date: 1999-10-29T15:11:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3819B903.869AE362@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7vc9f4$oct$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Ted Dennison wrote:
> <snip>
> Yeah. And in all fairness, I believe they prefer it capitalized
> "Fortran" theese days (probably for the same reasons I outlined before).
> <snip>
In 1977/1978, when FORTRAN 77 was near the end of its standardization
process, ANSI developed a standard for the casing of standardized
names. Under this standard pronouncable acronyms have an initial
capital, but the rest lower case, and unpronounceable ones all caps.
This standard was later adopted by other standardization bodies, i.e.,
ISO. Rather than force an additional delay in changing the text of the
FORTRAN 77 standard, this rule was waived for that standard, but all
subsequent Fortran standardization adapted to that rule, usually
refering to previous standards using an initial 'F' followed by small
caps for 'ortran'.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-24 0:00 Simple algorithmic question I hope :-) SPick60809
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-25 0:00 ` SPick60809
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-10-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-29 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-10-29 0:00 ` William B. Clodius [this message]
1999-10-30 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-11-03 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-03 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-10-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-10-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-31 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-11-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-03 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
1999-10-31 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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