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From: "M. A. Alves" <maa@liacc.up.pt>
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Subject: Re: Capitalization of language names (was: Newbie in ADA...)
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:01:35 +0000 (GMT)
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Date: 2001-10-25T13:01:35+00:00

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?

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