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From: wsb@boise.Eng.Sun.COM (Walt Brainerd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: lowercase letters, was Re: semicolon
Summary: Actually, not
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Date: 14 Nov 90 22:40:28 GMT
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In article <3976.2741683a@cc.nu.oz.au>, c0037544@cc.nu.oz.au (David Williams) writes:
> 
> FORTRAN, the language that is so old, it was around before lower case letters.
> 
On the front cover of my copy of the first Fortran manual IBM produced
for the IBM 704, it says "Fortran"  (cap "F", lowercase "ortran").
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