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From: psmith@mozart.uucp (Presley Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Two Fortran Standards
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Date: 13 Sep 89 15:22:10 GMT
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In article <1989Sep13.001659.721@agate.berkeley.edu> jerry@violet.berkeley.edu ( Jerry Berkman ) writes:
>In article <608@mbph.UUCP> hybl@mbph.UUCP (Albert Hybl  Dept of Biophysics  SM) writes:

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>My point is that there have been many useful extensions to the standard,
>and that there will continue to be useful extensions.  We can't freeze
>Fortran.

Anyone who does believes that Fortran 8x will NOT be extended is naive.

Vendors do listen to the users and extend languages when the user demand 
is there for an extension, whether that extension is standard or not.