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Article #2663Re: Capitalization & programming language names
From: Ken Yap
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 1991 23:15
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 1991 23:15
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>If you look at common English usage, you'll find that >acronyms are *not* always written in all caps. >Consider "laser", "radar", and "scuba", for instance. > >The names of languages (eg, English, Fortran, Basic) are proper names, >and thus should be given an initial capital. If the name is an acronym >that is pronounced by sounding out each letter, then you should use all caps >(eg, IBM, APL, JCL). There is no good reason for spelling acronyms >like Basic or laser with all caps; furthermore, it is ugly and hard to read. A dissenting point of view is that you should spell computer language names just as the defining documents specified them. Thus FORTRAN, BASIC, but Pascal and TeX.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csc.anu.edu.au!csis!ken From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Capitalization & programming language names Message-ID: <1991Jan13.231540.3218@csis.dit.csiro.au> Date: 13 Jan 91 23:15:40 GMT References: <3561@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <14834@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <1991Jan11.203246.12599@nixtdc.uucp> Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology Lines: 13