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- From: corbett@lupa.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Corbett)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Name of Fortran Standard again (was Dynamic Memory Allocation)
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 01:22:16 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan4.195942.9993@newshost.lanl.gov> <29889@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan5.141226.25607@edf.fr>
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- In article <1993Jan5.141226.25607@edf.fr> cabhhmm@cli74aa.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Michele Morin 5115 A408) writes:
- >In the ISO/IEC 1539 : 1991 (E) document, I find, at the beginning,
- >in the Foreword :
- >FORTRAN 77 is an archival standard in the United States.
- >Fortran 90 was developed jointly by the X3 tecnical subcommittee X3J3
- >and IEC/ISO JTC1/SC22/WG5. It is identical to ISO/IEC 1539 : 1991, the
- >International Fortran Standard.
- >
- >Michele Morin.
-
- It seemed odd to me that ISO/IEC 1539 : 1991 (E) would claim to be identical
- to ISO/IEC 1539 : 1991, so I pulled out my copy of ISO/IEC 1539 : 1991 (E)
- and checked. I found no such claim in the foreword. There also is no reference
- to FORTRAN 77, X3J3, or IEC/ISO JTC1/SC22/WG5. It does say
-
- International Standard ISO/IEC 1539 was prepared by
- Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC 1, Information technology.
-
- My guess is that the quotes in question came from a draft of the standard,
- not the standard.
-
- Yours truly,
- Robert Corbett
-