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From: paus@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de
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Subject: Re: looking for FORTRAN to Ada translators
Date: 12 Mar 1995 12:30:26 GMT
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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