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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,751d508677a5add1 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!198.186.194.249.MISMATCH!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!postnews3.readnews.com!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:55:06 -0400 From: "Peter C. Chapin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA made me hate programming References: <4c2e0f69$0$6892$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> In-Reply-To: <4c2e0f69$0$6892$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4c2e1974$0$2542$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> Organization: SoVerNet (sover.net) NNTP-Posting-Host: 5f08c4c2.news.sover.net X-Trace: DXC=9h:M:j@]@j2`QH7QS>[O[0K6_LM2JZB_31YSD@:XE[89:WUUlR<856?bZId_e=YiJ0Wo=EGTHNFA5 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sover.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12143 Date: 2010-07-02T12:55:06-04:00 List-Id: On 2010-07-02 12:10, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Does capitalization apply to old FORTRAN only? ISO/IEC writes "Fortran" > these days. I believe starting with Fortran 90 there was an official decision to spell the name as "Fortran." Thus FORTRAN refers to versions of the language before Fortran 90. I don't have a reference for this but I used to lurk on comp.lang.fortran and I believe it was discussed there by people who seemed to know what they were talking about. Peter