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From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On Fri, 2006-May-26 20:58:59 -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
>I completely agree with Peter with the caveat that the
>name of the Language is Fortran not FORTRAN.  :-)

It was FORTRAN when I learnt it about 30 years ago.  It looks like
lower case letters have been invented since then :-).

If I can trust Wikipedia, it is FORTRAN 77 (and earlier) but
Fortran 90 (and later).

-- 
Peter Jeremy