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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: so much for X3J3
Message-ID: <11690@lanl.gov>
Date: 7 Apr 89 23:54:08 GMT
References: <442@rb-dc1.UUCP>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <442@rb-dc1.UUCP>, by shapiro@rb-dc1.UUCP (Mike Shapiro):
> [...]
> Subset (or some similar name).  And it should be noted that any
> standard-conforming FORTRAN 77 program will continue to be a
> standard-conforming Fortran 8x program.  Indeed, the most difficult
> transition task for many people may be remembering to use the correct
> capitalization rule (as used in this paragraph).

Just for the record, the correct capitalization rule is 'Fortran' not
'FORTRAN'.  This is, admittedly, not a very important point, but it
does conform to an international agreement (through ISO) for capital-
ization of programming languages and features (to which ANSI has agreed).
The rule is (simplistically put): if the word term is pronounced then
the spelling is with initial capital only; if the word is spelled out
verbally then it should be all capitalized in print.