Re: looking for FORTRAN to Ada translators

[clodius@lanl.gov (William B. Clodius)]

In Article <3jtq83$6bi@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
>Marin made some guesses as to the capitalization of Fortran. Just so there
>is no confusion on this point (after all the Ada folks are very particular
>about capitalization of *their* language :-)
>
>The language was originally FORTRAN, but later officially changed to
>Fortran. I believe the change was from the 66 standard (FORTRAN) to
>the 77 standard (Fortran).
>
>So it should always be spelled Fortran these days, and the subject
>is indeed incorrectly capitalized in this thread, but I did not change
>it because many thread following mailers would lose the thread!
>

Check the Fortran FAQ

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.