Re: looking for FORTRAN to Ada translators

[dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)]

In article <3jtq83$6bi@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>Marin made some guesses as to the capitalization of Fortran. Just so there
>is no confusion on this point (after all the Ada folks are very particular
>about capitalization of *their* language :-)
>
>The language was originally FORTRAN, but later officially changed to
>Fortran. I believe the change was from the 66 standard (FORTRAN) to
>the 77 standard (Fortran).
>

From Magnus Kempe's Ada FAQ:
   In addition, ISO and IEEE recommend as a general guideline to spell
   like proper names the language names that are pronounced as they are
   spelled (e.g. Ada, Pascal, Cobol, Basic, Fortran). Note: that a name
   originally resulted from abbreviation is considered irrelevant. For
   language names that are phonetically spelled (e.g. C, C++, APL, PL/1),
   they should be spelled in all uppercase.


-- 
      Frustrated with C, C++, Pascal, Fortran?  Ada95 _might_ be for you!
	  For all sorts of interesting Ada95 tidbits, run the command:
"finger dweller@starbase.neosoft.com | more" (or e-mail with "finger" as subj.)