brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd) (04/28/89)
There has been a fair bit of discussion recently in both X3J3 and on Unix news about the "spelling" of "Fortran". All caps, one cap and lowercase, one cap and small caps, etc. Also Fortran 88 vs. Fortran 8x vs Fortran 90, or whatever. I just happened to pull out my autographed (by Backus) copy of the reproduction of the first Fortran manual (for the IBM 704). The title one the cover is Programmer's Primer for Fortran One capital F and the rest lowercase!! Should I be fair and add that it is done both with all caps and with one cap and small caps inside the manual? Naw...