Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!hc!beta!a!jlg
From: jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran 8x spelling.
Message-ID: <503@a.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 22:56:06 GMT
References: <500@a.UUCP> <1067@ut-emx.UUCP>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
Lines: 12
Keywords: Standard review.
Summary: spelling Fortran

In article <1067@ut-emx.UUCP>, reeder@ut-emx.UUCP (William P. Reeder) writes:
> First, 'PASCAL' isn't spelled 'Pascal', 'ALGOL' isn't spelled 'Algol', 
> 'C' isn't spelled 'C' (oops, experimental error :-), and 'FORTRAN' 
> shouldn't be spelled 'Fortran'.  ANSI tried (on page I, lines 22-23) to 
> redefine the spelling of FORTRAN, but I reject this just as I reject S8 
> as a new standard.

Maybe YOU don't spell them that way, but the ISO has a rule on the consistent
spelling of programming language names, and all the spellings that you claim 
are wrong are, in fact, the correct spellings.
   
J. Giles
Los Alamos