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From: wsb@boise.Eng.Sun.COM (Walt Brainerd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: lowercase letters, was Re: semicolon
Message-ID: <2856@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 90 16:57:29 GMT
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In article <2825@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, corbett@lupa.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Corbett) writes:
> >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").
> >Walt Brainerd        Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> 
> At the top of each page of the seminal paper by Backus, et. al.
> it says FOTRAN, all caps, only one 'R.'
> 		Yours truly, 	Bob Corbett

My point was not that there is more/earlier/better
precedent for "Fortran", but that there is _some_ precedent.
As we all know it was almost always FORTRAN until the late 1970s
(even inside the 704 manual).
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