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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Simple algorithmic question I hope :-)
Date: 1999/11/01
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In article <7vhrs6$79q1@news.cis.okstate.edu>,
  dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David Starner) wrote:
> The name of the language is both FORTRAN & Fortran. FORTRAN is
applied
> to the versions <= 77. Fortran is applied to the versions >=
90.

Well I was of course referring to the most recent version. Of
course Fortran is really odd, both the 77 and 90 standards
from ANSI are valid at the same time, a very peculiar situation
reflecting an inability to get a real consensus that F90
represented *the* direction in which Fortran development should
go. Does someone know if the ISO standard suffers the same
schizophrenia? Normally there can be only one ISO standard for
a language (Ada 83 is no longer an ISO standardized language).

The Fortran community that I know these days typically spells
the language in the modern style Fortran, rather than in the
old style FORTRAN.

COBOL though is almost always thus spelled in the COBOL
community.


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