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- From: corbett@lupa.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Corbett)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Dynamic Memory Allocation in FORTRAN, Question
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 06:06:41 GMT
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- References: <BzL8tz.H5u@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec21.172931.15093@netcom.com> <BzMK05.HJ2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BzMK05.HJ2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.172931.15093@netcom.com>, walt@netcom.com (Walt Brainerd) writes:
- >>In article <BzL8tz.H5u@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi) writes:
- >|>> Well, if you stick to the FORTRAN standard the answer is no
- >|>> [of course, Fortran is another story].
- >|>
- >|>THE programming language Fortran has sometimes been written
- >|>"Fortran" (the way it appeared in the first IBM manuual for
- >|>the IBM 704) and sometimes been written "FORTRAN". There has
- >|>been a trend to adopt "Fortran" since about 1978, just after
- >|>the Fortran 77 standard came out. The point is that the
- >|>way of writing the word does NOT indicate the version.
- >|>Saying that standard FORTRAN does not have dynmaic storage
- >|>allocation, but standard Fortran does is very confusing.
- >
- >Ooops! Sorry. Then I misinterpreted a discussion here some weeks
- >ago. I will always add the number, promised!
-
- You did not misunderstand. The introduction to ISO/IEC 1539:1991(E)
- states
-
- Note that the name of this language, Fortran, differs from that
- in FORTRAN 77 in that only the first letter is capitalized.
- Both FORTRAN 77 and FORTRAN 66 (by which the authors mean the
- standards for those languages, -rpc) used only capital letters
- in the official name of the language, but Fortran 90 does not
- continue that tradition.
-
- A few points to observe are
-
- (1) FORTRAN 66, FORTRAN 77, and Fortran 90 are all informal
- names. The official names of the languages are either
- FORTRAN or Fortran.
-
- (2) FORTRAN and Fortran are different languages.
-
- (3) "Standard FORTRAN" does not refer to Fortran 90.
-
- (4) Standard FORTRAN could be used to refer to FORTRAN 66,
- save that FORTRAN 77 superceded it.
-
- (5) Fortran 90 has not superceded FORTRAN 77 in the USA.
- The ANSI FORTRAN Standard, X3.9-1978, and the ANSI
- Fortran Standard, X3.198-1992, have coequal status.
-
- Yours truly,
- Robert Corbett
-