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by fuzzfactor 1918 days ago
>it's spelled Fortran, not FORTRAN. By using the latter you signal that your experience on the topic is from 30 years ago.

Excellent idea to help filter out those having the lesser number of decades experience.

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Correct, but as I mentioned above, one should use the original acronym form when referring to an old version that was specifically named that way.