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From: corbett@beatnix.UUCP (Bob Corbett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Fortran 8x: ISO compatibilty
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Date: 8 Jul 89 03:44:48 GMT
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     One of the bugbears pointed out by members of X3J3 is the possibility
that if the current draft of the standard is not approved, ISO may adopt it
as a standard in any case.  The result would be two incompatible Fortran
standards.  I am not frightened by this prospect.  I would rather have
a good ANSI standard for Fortran and a lousy ISO standard for Fortran than
have the same lousy standard for both.

				   Yours very truly,
				   Bob Corbett
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