From schmitt@edvz.tuwien.ac.at Fri Jul 11 00:47:21 1997 Received: from mr.tuwien.ac.at (mr.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.2.10]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA06491 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 00:47:19 +0200 Received: from edvzbb2.ben-fh.tuwien.ac.at by mr.tuwien.ac.at with SMTP (PP); Fri, 11 Jul 1997 00:47:18 +0200 Received: from S11EDVZ_BB2/SpoolDir by edvzbb2.ben-fh.tuwien.ac.at (Mercury 1.21); 11 Jul 97 00:47:18 +0100 Received: from SpoolDir by S11EDVZ_BB2 (Mercury 1.21); 11 Jul 97 00:46:57 +0100 Received: from tt by edvzbb2.ben-fh.tuwien.ac.at (Mercury 1.21) with ESMTP; 11 Jul 97 00:46:49 +0100 Reply-To: schmitt From: Gerhard Schmitt To: SC22WG5 Subject: 20 years Fortran Standadization Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 00:46:45 +0200 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <2F47C0E4AA0@edvzbb2.ben-fh.tuwien.ac.at> Prepairing some changes to the Vienna meeting homepage http://edvzbb5.ben-fh.tuwien.ac.at/wg5vienna/meeting.htm (please look at the botom of this page) I relized that the Fortran Experts Group (of ISO/SC5) - a predecessor to WG5 - was established in 1977 which is 20 years ago. This is a text I got from David Muxworthy a year ago: The meeting in the Hague was an SC5 meeting held on November 14-18, 1977. The subsequent BSI DPS/13 (now IST/5) minutes include the following summary: "The meeting was chaired by Mr Bemer (USA). ... Ad hoc groups were set up to deal with COBOL (convenor Mr Coupers, USA), FORTRAN (convenor Mrs Adams, USA), PL/I subsets (convenor Mr Adams, USA), ALGOL (Dr Hill, UK), BASIC (informal get-together). Two days were devoted to the ad hoc group meetings. Reports were delivered from the existing working groups WG1 - PLIP and WG2 - Graphics. A third working group was set up to take over from the DBMS study group which is now ISO/TC 97/SC 5/WG 3, secretariat Sweden. PASCAL, APL and OSCL were also considered. Resolutions wre passed relating to DBMS, PL/I, graphics, minimal BASIC, FORTRAN, CORAL 66, PL/I subsets, COBOL, minimum COBOL, and ALGOL. Another resolution concerned the processing of programming language standards." Then, specifically on SC5 Resolution 9 (FORTRAN): "A draft proposal (USA) 397, as amended by N410, was accepted and is to be submitted to SC 5 members by letter ballot. An ad hoc meeting of FORTRAN experts was held, and they had felt that it would be beneficial to have another such meeting in late 1978 or 1979. It was agreed that the UK might invite this meeting." The Hague meeting, via SC5 resolution 6 [text not to hand], is generally regarded as the start of international member body cooperation on programming language standardization, as distinct from foreign nationals participating in national standards bodies. The report demonstrates the minimal state of SC5 working groups in 1977. --- end of Davids text We should celebrate that in some way during our meeting. Regards, Gerhard