From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,39bc67821e9fdfe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-24 10:58:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Capitalization of language names (was: Newbie in ADA...) Date: 24 Oct 2001 12:58:05 -0500 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1003946287 16160 192.135.80.34 (24 Oct 2001 17:58:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:58:07 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15141 Date: 2001-10-24T12:58:05-05:00 List-Id: In article , Ted Dennison writes: > In article , 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.