Re: Capitalization of language names (was: Newbie in ADA...)

["Jeffrey L. Susanj" <jeffrey.l.susanj@boeing.com>]

"M. A. Alves" <maa@liacc.up.pt> wrote in message
news:mailman.1003917634.19502.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> > > I'm absolutely new to ADA... Coming from JAVA... Do you know any book
> >
> > At least he got "Java" wrong too. :-}
> >
> > I'd really love to know where people get the idea its capitalized that
way. In
> > this case, perhaps he just thinks *all* languages are all-caps?
>
> Actually I have come across a couple of editors/reviewers requiring that
> style (all languages all-caps)---but I don't think this is the cause of
> the current mispellings. (It was some time ago now, perhaps for single
> font, no italics, no bold, typewritten documents, perhaps University
> theses, applications for grants, can't remember exactly---but I remember
> the requirement well, you can imagine why...)
>
> And I think there are books out there today with the wrong spelling.
>
>    *
> *     *
>
> The capitalization of Ada and Java is clear, but there _are_ fuzzy
> cases: ForTran, ProLog :-)
>

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
did not have lower case letters since they were not designed for word
processing.  So, all things computer would be in all caps.  Question, did
keypunches have mixed case or only upper?


Jeff S.