From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Sat Nov 6 13:27:27 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom8 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom8@www2.open-std.org Received: by www2.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 63F6DC3BA24; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 13:27:27 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org X-Greylist: delayed 1847 seconds by postgrey-1.18 at www2.open-std.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2010 13:27:26 CET Received: from moene.org (moene.org [82.95.66.103]) by www2.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA90AC3BA03 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 13:27:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from [127.0.0.1] by moene.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PEhNU-0005Wk-Dj; Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:56:12 +0100 Message-ID: <4CD5425C.2020808@moene.org> Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:56:12 +0100 From: Toon Moene Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100329) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John.Reid@stfc.ac.uk, fortran standards email list for J3 Cc: WG5 Subject: Re: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4345) Good news for the Fortran 2003 standard References: <20101104112815.A51F3C178E4@www2.open-std.org> In-Reply-To: <20101104112815.A51F3C178E4@www2.open-std.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk John Reid wrote: > WG5, > > I gave a talk on Fortran 2008 at a meeting at ECMWF yesterday. Ahead of > me was a talk by Dave Norton of The Portland Group. Among other things, > he said that they plan to support the whole of Fortran 2003 next year. ECMWF tries to move to a programming paradigm where at least the outer structure of the model(s) use object oriented design (the reason for this is complicated, but it stems from the fact that they noticed they copied -and then slightly modified- far too much code). Obviously, it would be easiest if they could use Fortran for this - their "toy model" code at the moment has both a C++ variant and a Fortran variant. Although I haven't looked into it yet, my impression is that the Fortran variant is rather crippled by the fact that they want to (also) compile it with Gfortran (See http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Fortran2003Status) for where Gfortran is, 2003-wise. Kind regards, -- Toon Moene - e-mail: toon@moene.org - phone: +31 346 214290 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands At home: http://moene.org/~toon/; weather: http://moene.org/~hirlam/ Progress of GNU Fortran: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran#news