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by hilbert42 1920 days ago
Right. Sometimes old habits die hard and I use FORTRAN when I mean Fortran but I don't do it intentionally nor do I do it out of ignorance. (I note that as I type this into Firefox, its speller still wants to capitalize the word! As I've discovered so do many other editors and word-processors.)

In recent years I've adopted the following nomenclature and you'll note I've done so here in my earlier posts. That is to treat the name of each specific version as a proper name. As FORTRAN IV was originally called that including the Romanized numerals for the version number I use that out of respect for those who originally named it in the same way I'd always use say John and not john. Nowadays, when I refer to Fortran in its generic sense I use its new default name rather than its old acronym form.