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- From: dtm@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Muxworthy)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Name of Fortran Standard again (was Dynamic Memory Allocation)
- Message-ID: <29889@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 12:57:56 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.195942.9993@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <1993Jan4.195942.9993@newshost.lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov
- (J. Giles) writes (amongst other things):
- >FORTRAN 77 is the designation recommended by the standard document itself
- >(ANSI X3.9-1978, Forward):
-
- >Similarly, "Fortran 90" is actually the *title* of the ISO version
- >of the new standard. Whether these designations are *official*
- >or merely *officially informal*, they are clearly the appropriate
- >names to use.
-
- This is nit-picking, but let's get things right. The ISO document ISO/IEC
- 1539 : 1991 (E) has as its title "Information technology - Programming
- languages - Fortran", i.e. no "90" and capitalized as shown. The
- introduction starts 'This International Standard specifies the form and
- establishes the interpretation of programs expressed in the Fortran language
- (known informally as "Fortran 90").' Thereafter the document generally refers
- to the new language simply as "Fortran" and to the previous standard as
- "FORTRAN 77", actually using a font with "ORTRAN" in small capitals.
-
- There is only one international standard, the 1991 one which superseded
- ISO/IEC 1539:1980 (that is FORTRAN 77). The US on the other hand has both
- X3.9-1978 FORTRAN and X3.198-1992 Fortran 90. The "90" is part of the
- official name, needed to distinguish the two standards.
- David Muxworthy
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