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: 2001-10-25 03:41:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!opentransit.net!proxad.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!peer.news.eu-x.com!server2.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Capitalization of language names (was: Newbie in ADA...) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:02:03 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3BD7D50A.71299824@brighton.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pc2je.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1004003210 26197 193.62.183.154 (25 Oct 2001 09:46:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Oct 2001 09:46:50 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15170 Date: 2001-10-25T09:46:50+00:00 List-Id: "Jeffrey L. Susanj" wrote: > > "M. A. Alves" 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()... :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------