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From: khb@fatcity.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman Sun Tactical Engineering)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran 8x ?
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Date: 15 Feb 89 05:50:30 GMT
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In article <20377@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> naparst@garnet.berkeley.edu (Harold Naparst) writes:
>I have been out of it for about 9 months, so please excuse this topic,
>which has almost certainly been discussed before.
>
>During the public review period for Fortran 8x last spring, I sent in 
>a critique of a lot of the new features in Fortran 8x.  I never got a
>response.  Can anyone tell me what is going on with this new language?
>

WG5 (part of the intern'l effort) hath ordained F88, with some
editoral work to be done, along with a strong directive to get
agreement with the US document. They are willing to compromise, so are
we. 

As I write, the X3J3 (ANSI committee) is working hard to come up with
the text by Friday, then there will be two draft documents, ANSI and
ISO. There will be another round of public review, and then
(*hopefully*) _an_ ordained standard which both bodies can live with.

Every public comment is gone over, in painful detail. Very few of the
points are any different than discussions the committee had years
ago... nonetheless the standard is mutating to conform with the
comments (WG5 and public) in several important areas.

It takes a few weeks after a meeting for the Sect'y and others to
collate all that transpired.

The meeting is ongoing at the Holiday Inn in Palo Alto (El Camino and
Embarcadero). The public is welcome.

cheers.


Keith H. Bierman
It's Not My Fault ---- I Voted for Bill & Opus