From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Mon Nov 10 18:01:29 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom7 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom7@www2.open-std.org Received: by www2.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 00203C178E1; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:01:28 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from mk-filter-1-a-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-filter-1-a-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.100.52]) by www2.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EAC0C178D6 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:01:26 +0100 (CET) X-Trace: 105874020/mk-filter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/B2C/$b2c-THROTTLED-DYNAMIC/b2c-CUSTOMER-DYNAMIC-IP/88.104.202.128/None/d.muxworthy@bcs.org.uk X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 88.104.202.128 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: d.muxworthy@bcs.org.uk X-MUA: Apple Mail (2.753.1) X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: At0AAGP3F0lYaMqA/2dsb2JhbAAIyy2DWA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,576,1220223600"; d="txt'?scan'208";a="105874020" Received: from 88-104-202-128.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (HELO [192.168.1.2]) ([88.104.202.128]) by smtp.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 10 Nov 2008 17:01:25 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Message-Id: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=Apple-Mail-1-1068696526 From: David Muxworthy Subject: UK activity report N1757 Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:01:55 +0000 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk --Apple-Mail-1-1068696526 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; x-unix-mode=0644; name=N1757.txt Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=N1757.txt ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5-N1757 BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (IST/5) UK National Activity Report presented to the meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 (Fortran), Tokyo, Japan, November 16 - 21, 2008 Membership and meetings Membership of the BSI Fortran Panel has changed since the last WG5 meeting but the total remains at 19 members, including observers. One member of the BSI Panel is also an alternate member of J3 and one member is WG5 convenor. The panel's business is normally conducted by e-mail and it meets only when there are issues to be resolved which cannot be decided otherwise. JTC1 and SC22 ballots Since the last WG5 meeting the formal BSI votes have been to approve Technical Corrigendum 3 and to disapprove the Base Language CD; the rationale for the latter vote is in WG5-N1740 (aka SC22 N4405). Activity When the Fortran CD was made available for public comment, a trawl for input from UK Fortran users was made on comp.lang.fortran, comp-fortran-90 and the BCS Fortran Specialist Group members' list and website. Announcements calling for comment were also made at various computing meetings. There was a response from eight individuals outside the Fortran panel, one of whom summarized discussion at a related physics conference. This disappointing total was generally assumed to be due to users not yet having come to terms with Fortran 2003 and hence displaying little interest as yet in Fortran 2008. One public comment contained a proposal for a minor enhanced feature which has been forwarded for consideration by WG5. Despite the progress made at the August 2007 and February 2008 WG5 meetings, and despite discussions based on hundreds of email messages, it has not been possible to come to a consensus in favour of the Fortran Base Language CD. Indeed, both amongst panel members and those members of the public who commented, there are still strong divisions of opinion on the document with most of the UK panel continuing to have serious concerns. These are summarized in WG5-N1740 and hence are not repeated here. Acknowledgement The BSI Fortran Panel gratefully acknowledges financial support for two of its members at this meeting from the British Computer Society Specialist Groups Executive Committee, JKR Associates and Polyhedron Software Ltd. David Muxworthy IST/5/-/5 (Fortran) Convenor November 10, 2008 --Apple-Mail-1-1068696526--