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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,39bc67821e9fdfe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-24 10:03:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed1.uncensored-news.com!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!news-in.superfeed.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: Subject: Re: Capitalization of language names (was: Newbie in ADA...) Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:02:25 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:02:26 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15138 Date: 2001-10-24T17:02:26+00:00 List-Id: In article , Jeffrey L. Susanj says... > >I can see ForTran as Formula Translator although I always saw it as FORTRAN. >One theory for all caps might be that early programmers used teletypes that Perhaps, but those days are *long* gone. I'll admit that some "early programmers" are still here among us (particularly in this group :-) ), but they really have to be a small percentage of all usenet users. I don't really think that all the "ADA"-using folks out there can be reluctant teletype refugees. A lot of them seem to be programming newbies. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.