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From: dd@beta.lanl.gov (Dan Davison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: fortran 8x compiler
Summary: probably dead
Keywords: fortran 8x compiler
Message-ID: <20931@beta.lanl.gov>
Date: 30 Jul 88 02:22:44 GMT
References: <133@garfield.RDL.COM>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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In article <133@garfield.RDL.COM>, kopaz@garfield.RDL.COM (John 'Echo' Kopaz) writes:
> 
> i was wandering if there were any implementations
> of 8x available for vaxen and suns (3 and 4).  
> 
> a sun4 implementation is my main concern because this machine is my other
> compute server.  
> 
> could someone email me a brief update on what the x3j3 committee is doing.
> john a. kopaz				| 

The X3J3 committee met in May and meets again next week (if I remember
correctly).  The committee has gotten some 600 comments, 400 before
the deadline.

A privately circulated summary of the last meeting is somewhat omnious.
After reading it, my opinion is that the proposed standard is DOA;
they'll probably have to chuck it out and start again.  I personally
favor them adopting the F77 standard as a base and adding bits,
pointers, and includes.  

As I said in my comments to the committee, nice language, too bad
it's not Fortran.


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