Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!splut!jay
From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran 8x spelling.
Message-ID: <419@splut.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 12:47:40 GMT
References: <503@a.UUCP>
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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From article <503@a.UUCP>, by jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles):
> 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'...
> 
> 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.

Just to continue this silly discussion one more message...

I thought the reason it was FORTRAN, ALGOL, COBOL, BASIC, APL,... was
because they are acronyms, while Pascal was named for a real person.

Or is this too logical??

PLEASE don't followup! If you MUST correct me :-), then please do it by
E-mail.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled "F8X isn't FORTRAN" flames...

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