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From: paus@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de
Subject: Re: looking for FORTRAN to Ada translators
Date: 12 Mar 1995 12:30:26 GMT
Date: 1995-03-12T12:30:26+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3juph2$18l4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3jtq83$6bi@gnat.cs.nyu.edu

In article <3jtq83$6bi@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> 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).
> 
> So it should always be spelled Fortran these days, [...]

Are you sure ? I've seen a lot of programmers in industry who claim
to be Fortran programmers but if you look at their code it is really
FORTRAN. So if they use the capitalized version, may they jsut mean
what they say :-)

Michael



  parent reply	other threads:[~1995-03-12 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-03-10 16:12 looking for FORTRAN to Ada translators CONDIC
1995-03-12  3:36 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-12 11:59   ` David Weller
1995-03-12 12:30   ` paus [this message]
1995-03-19  0:44     ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-13 17:24   ` William B. Clodius
1995-03-16 20:52     ` Norman H. Cohen
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1995-03-09 14:47 David K. Leucht
1995-03-09 21:00 ` Jacob S. Andersen
1995-03-10  8:59 ` Alydaar Software corp.
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