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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Simple algorithmic question I hope :-)
Date: 1999/10/30
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"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 ..)