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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability
Date: 1996/11/29
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Date: 1996-11-29T00:00:00+00:00
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"Perhaps a better assumption would be to use the language's own full name"


That's not quite a clear rule, for example the language name is
SNOBOL 4 and Algol 68, but the language name is Fortran or Ada 
(the common terms like Fortran 77 and Ada 95 are informal terms,
not the official names of the languages).

Of course with non-standard languages like Eiffel or Modula, it is not
so clear from a formaol point of view what the name of the language is
since one cannot use the standard to dictate this.