Editing Fortran (section)

==Naming==
The first manual for FORTRAN describes it as a ''Formula Translating System'', and printed the name with [[small caps]], {{smallcaps|Fortran}}.<ref name="Sayre_1956"/>{{rp|p.2}}<ref name="history-fortran-i-ii-333"/>  Other sources suggest the name stands for ''Formula Translator'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/fortran/ |title=FORTRAN: The Pioneering Programming Language |website= [[IBM]]|date=2012-03-07 |publisher= |access-date=2017-07-19 |quote=}}</ref> or ''Formula Translation''.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=FORTRAN |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=2021-06-14 |publisher= |location= |id= |url=https://www.britannica.com/technology/FORTRAN |access-date=2021-07-19 }}</ref>

Early IBM computers did not support [[lowercase]] letters, and the names of versions of the language through FORTRAN&nbsp;77 were usually spelled in all-[[uppercase]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Chapman|first=Stephen J.|date=2018|title=Fortran for Scientists and Engineers|url=https://www.mheducation.com/highered/product/fortran-scientists-engineers-chapman/M9780073385891.html|edition=Fourth|location=[[New York City|New York]]|publisher=[[McGraw Hill Education|McGraw-Hill Education]]|page=13|isbn=978-0-07-338589-1}}</ref> FORTRAN&nbsp;77 was the last version in which the Fortran character set included only uppercase letters.<ref>The "Fortran character set" defined by the FORTRAN&nbsp;77 standard was the minimal character set that standard-compliant compilers were required to support; in practice, many FORTRAN&nbsp;77 compilers supported the full [[ASCII]] character set.</ref>

The official language [[international standard|standards]] for Fortran have referred to the language as "Fortran" with initial caps since Fortran 90.{{fact|date=April 2024}}