From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: looking for FORTRAN to Ada translators
Date: 16 Mar 1995 20:52:29 GMT
Date: 1995-03-16T20:52:29+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ka8ed$1dfe@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: clodius.1145503128B@newshost.lanl.gov
In article <clodius.1145503128B@newshost.lanl.gov>, clodius@lanl.gov (William B. Clodius) writes:
|> To summarize: the FORTRAN 77 standard was written about the time it was
|> decided that the spelling of languages should be standardized in a way that
|> would cause FORTRAN to be spelled Fortran. The language is consistently
|> spelled FORTRAN in that ANSI (and ISO) standard. No official change was
|> made untill Fortran 90 which consistently refers to FORTRAN 77 and Fortran
|> 90. The "official" spelling is therefore FORTRAN for pre Fortran 90
|> Fortran, but Fortran was often used unofficially in many texts, and is
|> correct for F90, F9x, and HPF.
And yet Lois Haibt, who worked with John Backus on the original FORTRAN I
and II compilers, showed me an IBM manual for FORTRAN II whose cover said
"Fortran".
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Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com
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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
1995-03-19 0:44 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-13 17:24 ` William B. Clodius
1995-03-16 20:52 ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
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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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