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From: guerri@softg.UUCP (Ernesto Guerrieri)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: F8X is not Fortran
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Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 08:52:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 16 08:52:10 1987
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Summary: If it is not upward compatible, why call it Fortran?

From the comments that I see circulate, F8X will not be upward
compatible.  This will cause a great many programs to not work
with an F8X compiler.  This seems to be counter-productive! If
we are designing a new (and unrelated language), let's call it
something different than Fortran, because in reality it will
not be Fortran (at least in my mind).