From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Capitalization of language names (was: Newbie in ADA...)
Date: 24 Oct 2001 12:58:05 -0500
Date: 2001-10-24T12:58:05-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yZJ9GrDYBQP4@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: BuCB7.41279$ev2.48981@www.newsranger.com
In article <BuCB7.41279$ev2.48981@www.newsranger.com>, Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> In article <GLpy12.r4@news.boeing.com>, Jeffrey L. Susanj says...
>>
>>I can see ForTran as Formula Translator although I always saw it as FORTRAN.
>>One theory for all caps might be that early programmers used teletypes that
>
> Perhaps, but those days are *long* gone. I'll admit that some "early
> programmers" are still here among us (particularly in this group :-) ), but they
> really have to be a small percentage of all usenet users. I don't really think
> that all the "ADA"-using folks out there can be reluctant teletype refugees. A
As I recall, there was a particular version of the standard at which
the capitalization was changed from FORTRAN to Fortran.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-24 17:58 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 [this message]
2001-10-24 18:40 ` Bill
2001-10-25 9:02 ` John English
2001-10-25 13:01 ` M. A. Alves
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
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