Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!gatech!unmvax!brainerd From: brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Two Fortran Standards Message-ID: <369@unmvax.unm.edu> Date: 8 Sep 89 15:38:55 GMT References: <1598@convex.UUCP> <308@unmvax.unm.edu> Organization: University of New Mexico at Albuquerque Lines: 25 In article , bill@ssd.harris.com (Bill Leonard) writes: > >> Still think "Fortran 8x contains ALL of F77 as a subset"??? How many > >> other examples are there? NO ONE KNOWS! > >> > > So far we have zero examples. > > This reminds me of a comment a fellow programmer made to me years ago. I > asked if his program was working, and he said, "It's not known not to > work." In fact, he hadn't tested it at all, but there were no known > bugs! :-) > -- You and Presley have been fussing about this for some time. If there is some point to all this, I think the readers would like to hear what it is. Contrary to your insinuations, X3J3 has devoted a lot of time to trying to ensure that this is the case. A subgroup (led by Mike Metcalf of CERN, I think), did a complete reading of the two to check this. Of course, even after very extensive testing there may be a bug, but somehow, I don't think many people will think this is justification for dropping the project! -- Walt Brainerd Unicomp, Inc. brainerd@unmvax.cs.unm.edu 2002 Quail Run Dr. NE Albuquerque, NM 87122 505/275-0800