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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,30e3597af28a3026 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "William B. Clodius" Subject: Re: Simple algorithmic question I hope :-) Date: 1999/10/29 Message-ID: <3819B903.869AE362@lanl.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 542082995 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7uuuba$8s4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <19991025071337.29192.00000857@ng-fa1.aol.com> <7v255q$eth$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7va4ns$898$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3818BDC9.D8CF1D3B@callnetuk.com> <7vc9f4$oct$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@lanl.gov X-Trace: newshost.lanl.gov 941209860 20612 128.165.58.113 (29 Oct 1999 15:11:00 GMT) Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Oct 1999 15:11:00 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-10-29T15:11:00+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > Yeah. And in all fairness, I believe they prefer it capitalized > "Fortran" theese days (probably for the same reasons I outlined before). > 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'.