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From: gt4512c@prism.gatech.EDU (BRADBERRY,JOHN L)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: global data
Message-ID: <19411@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 9 Jan 91 12:07:28 GMT
References: <1991Jan7.131620.27789@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <10553@lanl.gov> <5428@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <5428@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> wsb@boise.Eng.Sun.COM (Walt Brainerd) writes:
>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".
>...
>Please, let's all call it "Fortran 90".

I prefer "Fortran 90" for a different reason...

Fortran 77 was introduced well over a decade ago, yet an alarming percentage
of code dates back to 60's style. At least two reasons for this were the
limits of ANSI 77 and the wide gap between vendor specific compilers (VAX
extended for example) and the ANSI standard. Useful structured syntax such
as DO WHILE and END DO were 'left out` of the strict standard to be absorbed
into the chaotic realm of dozens of 'roll your own extensions'. The result
was (is) unnecessary language porting problems over the past decade.

Lest we let history repeat itself, get the necessary 'extensions' into the
'standard', call it Fortran XX and get on with it!!!!!

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