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On Wednesday 21 January 2009 13:17, N.M. Maclaren wrote:
> As someone with experience of installing and supporting multiple
> different MPI's on multiple different systems, it is thoroughly
> undesirable.
Anyone on the Fortran committee should find it "undesirable" that we 
have a problem we know about, that can be solved, appears in many 
codes, and is usually attributed to the language (instead of the MPI 
Forum). We ought to fix this. It is simply our duty as the guardians of 
the language.
Best,
Aleks