From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Simple algorithmic question I hope :-)
Date: 1999/10/30
Date: 1999-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7v1zade6em.fsf@pogner.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3819B903.869AE362@lanl.gov
"William B. Clodius" <wclodius@lanl.gov> writes:
> In 1977/1978, when FORTRAN 77 was near the end of its standardization
> process, ANSI developed a standard for the casing of standardized
> names. Under this standard pronouncable acronyms have an initial
> capital, but the rest lower case, and unpronounceable ones all caps.
> This standard was later adopted by other standardization bodies, i.e.,
> ISO.
So one would expect Ansi and Iso, then (I can't remember anyone
spelling them out, they're always pronounced as words ..)
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-24 0:00 Simple algorithmic question I hope :-) SPick60809
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-25 0:00 ` SPick60809
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-10-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-29 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
1999-10-30 0:00 ` Simon Wright [this message]
1999-11-03 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-03 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-10-29 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-10-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-10-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-31 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-31 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-11-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-03 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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