From: John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Capitalization of language names (was: Newbie in ADA...)
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:02:03 +0100
Date: 2001-10-25T09:46:50+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BD7D50A.71299824@brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: GLpy12.r4@news.boeing.com
"Jeffrey L. Susanj" wrote:
>
> "M. A. Alves" <maa@liacc.up.pt> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1003917634.19502.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> > The capitalization of Ada and Java is clear, but there _are_ fuzzy
> > cases: ForTran, ProLog :-)
>
> I can see ForTran as Formula Translator although I always saw it as FORTRAN.
The "official" spellings are Fortran, Prolog, Cobol, Algol, and definitely
not ForTran, ProLog, CoBOL or AlgoL... it seems that JavaNamingConventions
are infiltratingEverywhere()... :-)
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-23 13:30 Newbie in ADA Marc Franz Neininger
2001-10-23 13:59 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-23 15:56 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-24 10:59 ` Capitalization of language names (was: Newbie in ADA...) M. A. Alves
2001-10-24 13:28 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-24 16:34 ` Jeffrey L. Susanj
2001-10-24 17:02 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-24 17:58 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-24 18:40 ` Bill
2001-10-25 9:02 ` John English [this message]
2001-10-25 13:01 ` M. A. Alves
2001-10-25 12:38 ` John English
2001-10-26 4:18 ` Anders Wirzenius
2001-10-26 10:19 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-29 9:46 ` John McCabe
2001-10-29 15:07 ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-13 2:19 ` David Thompson
2001-10-24 18:49 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-23 14:26 ` Newbie in ADA John McCabe
2001-10-23 15:09 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-23 16:34 ` David Botton
2001-10-24 6:17 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-24 16:12 ` Richard Pinkall-Pollei
2001-10-24 16:44 ` Preben Randhol
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