Steve after Nick:

> > OK and know for the 64 Dollar question  ..  What is the correct
> > capitalization of cobol and why?
>
> All caps, since it's an acronym. Same for FORTRAN, ALGOL, and BASIC
(though
> BillG would have us think otherwise). Not so for Pascal or Java.

Although common usage is to capitalize COBOL, it should probably be CoBOL,
since it is an acronym for Common Business Oriented Language.


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