Rule of thumb for capitalizing the letters in a programming language

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Published on 2009-07-15T18:09:20Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 8:13 UTC
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I was wondering if anyone knew why some programming languages that I see most frequently spelled in all caps (like an acronym), are also commonly written in lower case. FORTRAN, LISP, and COBOL come to mind but I'm sure there are many more.

Perhaps there isn't any reason for this, but I'm curious to know if any of these changes are due to standards or decisions by their respective communities. Or are people just getting too lazy to hit the caps lock key? (I know I am)

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