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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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: 1995-03-16 12:52:29 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Munich.Germany.EU.net!ibm.de!aixssc.uk.ibm.com!watnews.watson.ibm.com!ncohen From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: looking for FORTRAN to Ada translators Date: 16 Mar 1995 20:52:29 GMT Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Distribution: world Message-ID: <3ka8ed$1dfe@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> References: <3jtq83$6bi@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> Reply-To: ncohen@watson.ibm.com NNTP-Posting-Host: rios8.watson.ibm.com Date: 1995-03-16T20:52:29+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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". -- Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com