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- From: walt@netcom.com (Walt Brainerd)
- Subject: Re: Name of Fortran Standard again (was Dynamic Memory Allocation)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.183103.5990@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan4.195942.9993@newshost.lanl.gov> <29889@castle.ed.ac.uk> <lksa68INNkpt@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:31:03 GMT
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- In article <lksa68INNkpt@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, corbett@lupa.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Corbett) writes:
- > 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.
- >
-
- The foreword pages of drafts, the ISO standard, and possibly the
- ANSI version of the standard (if there does turn out to be one)
- are DIFFERENT. The rest of the document is the same. So I think
- everybody is right (or wrong) on this one.
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