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From: brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Proposed Fortran 88
Keywords: fortran standards
Message-ID: <2044@unmvax.unm.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 88 04:01:18 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico at Albuquerque
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Two points have been overlooked in the recent discussion of the happenings
in the wonderful world of Fortran standards:

1.  X3J3 is "tasked" by WG5 of ISO to create the ISO standard.

2.  There is only one document that is close enough to be a standard
    in the next five years; it is the one favored by ISO/WG5.  So the choices
    are:  a) the same ISO and ANSI standard or
    b) an ISO standard and _no_ ANSI standard (at least not for several years).

Also, from what I have heard, it is quite likely that any ISO standard
would become a U. S. Federal (FIP) standard whether it is an American
national standard or not, so vendors wanting to sell to Uncle Sam would
have to implement it.