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,d774810ae6a85e46 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-12 04:00:59 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: looking for FORTRAN to Ada translators Date: 12 Mar 1995 05:59:22 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Message-ID: <3junmq$mbn@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <3jtq83$6bi@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com Date: 1995-03-12T05:59:22-06:00 List-Id: In article <3jtq83$6bi@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar 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.)