>It occurs to me that if COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language, it might more properly be capitalized "CoBOL". But nobody ever does. Come to think of it, why do we capitalize "FoxPro" the way we do?

Hi Bret,

I'd assume that the reason it's COBOL and not CoBOL is the same as the reason why it's FORTRAN (Formula Translation) and not ForTran (whatever that is< g>). Seriously, I think it was just an adopted convention to always capitalize all letters in an acronym. The languages Pascal and Modula 2 aren't acronyms, BASIC is (Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). Which brings about the following answer to your FoxPro question...

FoxPro is a marketing name, just like Visual Basic. VB's language is BASIC, but its name is Basic. (After reading what I've just written I have a feeling it's gonna be one of *those* weeks < s >)