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From: wsb@boise.Eng.Sun.COM (Walt Brainerd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: global data
Summary: Fortran 90
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Date: 8 Jan 91 01:31:58 GMT
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In article <10553@lanl.gov>, jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
> 
> Fortran Extended (the most recent, and let's hope final name) ...
> [ ... nice comments about INCLUDE and MODULES ... ]

I really hope not.  Most of the world has agreed to call it "Fortran 90".
It has been the official name for at least a couple of years.
It is the name by which the ISO standard will be known.  "Fortran
Extended" is an invention of X3 and only confuses everyone into
thinking that perhaps it is something different from Fortran 90.
Most of those working in the standards process still believe that
the ISO and ANSI standards will be the same, so there is no reason
for different names.

Please, let's all call it "Fortran 90".
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