From owner-sc22wg5+sc22wg5-dom8=www.open-std.org@open-std.org Tue Mar 31 12:03:37 2015 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom8 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom8@www.open-std.org Received: by www.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 81D17358538; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:03:37 +0200 (CEST) Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org X-Greylist: delayed 1425 seconds by postgrey-1.34 at www5.open-std.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:03:36 CEST Received: from ppsw-32.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-32.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.132]) by www.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A33356E0D for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:03:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Cam-AntiVirus: no malware found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.51]:43265) by ppsw-32.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.156]:25) with esmtpa (EXTERNAL:nmm1) id 1Ycse9-0002sa-1z (Exim 4.82_3-c0e5623) (return-path ); Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:39:45 +0100 Received: from prayer by hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk (hermes.cam.ac.uk) with local (PRAYER:nmm1) id 1Ycse9-00026F-Hm (Exim 4.72) (return-path ); Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:39:45 +0100 Received: from [87.114.207.147] by old-webmail.hermes.cam.ac.uk with HTTP (Prayer-1.3.5); 31 Mar 2015 10:39:45 +0100 Date: 31 Mar 2015 10:39:45 +0100 From: "N.M. Maclaren" To: Walt Brainerd Cc: fortran standards email list for J3 , WG5 Subject: Re: [ukfortran] (SC22WG5.5477) (j3.2006) Does Fortran have a logo? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20150330225549.EF169358802@www.open-std.org> References: <20150330200307.86803357254@www.open-std.org> <20150330201410.9473B35862B@www.open-std.org> <20150330225549.EF169358802@www.open-std.org> X-Mailer: Prayer v1.3.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk On Mar 30 2015, Walt Brainerd wrote: >We used the following as an F icon. >Maybe it would be a candidate for Fortran. > >It is a capital F in Pythagoras font, so I >don't think anybody owns it, but who knows. It looks as if it is free. My reaction is that Fortran in Pythagoras would be as good as most icons, except that I would put some white space between the 'r' and the 't'; running them together is just plain perverse. I don't understand this fetish for icons, myself, but it does seem to tick some people's boxes. And, in response to another post, Fortran code in all capitals is nothing like as bad as C/Unix code in all miniscules, if for no other reason that it is a damn sight harder to read the latter when every letter is significant. The idiocy of people who claim that all minicules is easier to read (because it is for prose, with a fivefold redundancy) beggars belief. Regards, Nick Maclaren.