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- From: walt@netcom.com (Walt Brainerd)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Dynamic Memory Allocation in FORTRAN, Question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.002437.6031@netcom.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:24:37 GMT
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- > (1) FORTRAN 66, FORTRAN 77, and Fortran 90 are all informal
- > names. The official names of the languages are either
- > FORTRAN or Fortran.
-
- This is true and one way to account for it is that the accepted
- way of writing it changed between standards.
- >
- > (2) FORTRAN and Fortran are different languages.
-
- I don't think so. If you buy this, then which language is the
- one originally developed by IBM? They wrote Fortran (and
- FORTRAN).
- >
- > (3) "Standard FORTRAN" does not refer to Fortran 90.
-
- Sure it does. Some people simply still like the capitalized
- way of spelling it, even if it isn't written that way in the
- standard.
- >
- > (5) Fortran 90 has not superceded FORTRAN 77 in the USA.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.
- >
- Keith already explained why this is not quite right.
- I believe that one concrete result of this is that the
- X3H5 (formerly Parallel Computing Forum) work was not
- approved because it was a binding to Fortran 77. They
- are working on bindings to Fortran 90.
-
- In short, spell it like you want, but to avoid confusing me
- and the others who don't really care about these nice
- distinctions, use the number.
- --
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