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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,39bc67821e9fdfe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-24 11:40:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!not-for-mail From: Bill Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Capitalization of language names (was: Newbie in ADA...) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:40:18 -0600 Organization: University of Oregon Message-ID: <3BD70B01.538418F7@lanl.gov> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: clodius.lanl.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: pith.uoregon.edu 1003948954 6485 128.165.58.113 (24 Oct 2001 18:42:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.uoregon.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:42:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15144 Date: 2001-10-24T12:40:18-06:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > As I recall, there was a particular version of the standard at which > the capitalization was changed from FORTRAN to Fortran. In 1978, after the Fortran 77 standard had started its review, but before the standard was published, ANSI published a standard on how to capitalize names. This standard was later adopted by ISO. Naturally the Fortan 77 standard, which was not in electronic form, was grandfathered in with all capitalization. However subsequent standards that had to refer to this language were inconsistent in their capitalization, did they use that used by the standard itself or that usually required by ANSI /ISO? The Fortran 90 standard used ANSI/ISO's capitalization to refer to itself and a large cap "F" followed by low cap "ortran" to refer to the Fortran 77 standard. Subsequent standards been consistent with the Fortran 90 typography. FWIW the original Fortran (I) documents, a manual and a user guide, used several different capitalization schemes, see http://www.fortran.com/ibm.html, but apparently no ForTran. In later documents IBM standardized on FORTRAN.