5 Jan
2012
5 Jan
'12
4:54 p.m.
On 5 Jan 2012 at 7:20, vintagecoder at aol.com wrote:
Well I thought I was the only one. People born in the
last 20 or 30
years laugh at me when I write FORTRAN, they tell me it's not
"FORTRAN" it's "Fortran" when I know damn well it's an
acronym! And
they say unindented code in all caps is unreadable which is just the
opposite of my experience and I don't know how they can explain how we
were able to read and write it back in the day and now it's
unacceptable but I realize my opinions are usually if not always in
the minority and nobody listens to me anyway, so...
Go and read some standards. It was FORTRAN before F90, but part of
the ANSI F90 standard is that "Fortran" is acceptable.
Do any programmers who use a language actually read the standard for
it?
--Chuck