comp.lang.ada
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "M. A. Alves" <maa@liacc.up.pt>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Subject: Re: Capitalization of language names (was: Newbie in ADA...)
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:01:35 +0000 (GMT)
Date: 2001-10-25T13:01:35+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1004011368.5350.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BD7D50A.71299824@brighton.ac.uk>

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, John English wrote:

> "Jeffrey L. Susanj" wrote:
> >
> > "M. A. Alves" <maa@liacc.up.pt> wrote in message
> > news:mailman.1003917634.19502.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> > > 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.
>
> The "official" spellings are Fortran, Prolog, Cobol, Algol, and definitely
> not ForTran, ProLog, CoBOL or AlgoL... it seems that JavaNamingConventions
> are infiltratingEverywhere()... :-)

Well, there is MySQL, ProC...

And isn't COBOL the official spelling?

Cheers,

-- 
   ,
 M A R I O   data miner, LIACC, room 221   tel 351+226078830, ext 121
 A M A D O   Rua Campo Alegre, 823         fax 351+226003654
 A L V E S   P-4150 PORTO, Portugal        mob 351+939354002





  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-25 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-23 13:30 Newbie in ADA Marc Franz Neininger
2001-10-23 13:59 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-23 15:56   ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-24 10:59     ` Capitalization of language names (was: Newbie in ADA...) M. A. Alves
2001-10-24 13:28       ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-24 16:34       ` Jeffrey L. Susanj
2001-10-24 17:02         ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-24 17:58           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-24 18:40             ` Bill
2001-10-25  9:02         ` John English
2001-10-25 13:01           ` M. A. Alves [this message]
2001-10-25 12:38             ` John English
2001-10-26  4:18         ` Anders Wirzenius
2001-10-26 10:19           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-29  9:46             ` John McCabe
2001-10-29 15:07               ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-13  2:19           ` David Thompson
2001-10-24 18:49       ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-23 14:26 ` Newbie in ADA John McCabe
2001-10-23 15:09 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-23 16:34   ` David Botton
2001-10-24  6:17     ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-24 16:12     ` Richard Pinkall-Pollei
2001-10-24 16:44       ` Preben Randhol
replies disabled

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox