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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Name of Fortran 8X [was: so much for X3J3]
Keywords: WG5, ANSI, X3J3, Fortran, FORTRAN, standard
Message-ID: <8018@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 8 Apr 89 22:07:46 GMT
References: <24032@beta.lanl.gov> <97753@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <24066@beta.lanl.gov> <442@rb-dc1.UUCP>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <442@rb-dc1.UUCP> shapiro@rb-dc1.SanDiego.gould.UUCP (Michael Shapiro) writes:
 > The X3J3 committee continues to use "Fortran 8x" as the working name
 > of the draft proposed standard.  WG5 uses "Fortran 88" as its name for
 > the same draft.  My preference is to follow the convention of just
 > using the last digits of the year (e.g., COBOL 74), so that if it
 > becomes a standard this year, it would be "Fortran 89" and if it slips
 > to next year, "Fortran 90" and so forth.  What is your preference?

Fortran 88 of course.

 > Why?

Seeing that Fortran 66 became a standard in 1966 and  Fortran 77 became a
standard in 1978, it would be a logical follow up if Fortran 88
became a standard in 1990.
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