Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!newstop!sun!chiba!khb From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: X3 Vote on Fortran 8x Message-ID: <126599@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 20 Oct 89 17:16:58 GMT References: <2192@convex.UUCP> <426@unmvax.unm.edu> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) Distribution: comp.lang.fortran Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 23 In article mccalpin@masig3.masig3.ocean.fsu.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes: > >I got the impression from Presley's message that the extended Fortran >standard will still be a joint ANSI/ISO standard. Is this incorrect? Yes it is incorrect. I have asked permisson to forward comments from the ISO mailing list. When permission arrives.... The short answer is that ISO has basically accepted the draft (modulo edits) and the US has backed away from it. Furthermore ISO had voted near unimaously against subsetting with only 1 abstaintion (the US). It is too late in the standardization process to radically alter the document for ISO's purposes. There is little point in crafting up major mods to f8x "now that the luddites are gone", let's finish up in the international arena and build some compilers ... before we start on the next rev of the language. Keith H. Bierman |*My thoughts are my own. !! kbierman@sun.com It's Not My Fault | MTS --Only my work belongs to Sun* I Voted for Bill & | Advanced Languages/Floating Point Group Opus | "When the going gets Weird .. the Weird turn PRO" "There is NO defense against the attack of the KILLER MICROS!" Eugene Brooks