From dtm@holyrood.ed.ac.uk Wed Dec 10 12:51:05 1997 Received: from holyrood.ed.ac.uk (dtm@[129.215.166.17]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA04363 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:51:03 +0100 Received: (from dtm@localhost) by holyrood.ed.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA10036 for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 11:50:55 GMT Message-Id: <199712101150.LAA10036@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> Date: 10 Dec 97 11:50:54 GMT From: D Muxworthy Subject: European country adoption of Fortran 95 To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk To European members of WG5; to other members for information. It was noted at a meeting of BSI IST/5 yesterday that Fortran 95 could not (yet) be adopted as a British Standard because of a bureaucratic obstacle. Fortran 90 was also issued as a European Standard (EN 21539, November 1992). Members of CEN (that is the European Union plus Iceland, Norway and Switerland) have an agreement whereby CEN standards are also accepted as member body standards and CEN have not yet replaced Fortan 90 by Fortran 95. So, whereas BSI adopted Fortran 90 as a national standard and re-issued the document with a BSI cover, it can take no such action with Fortran 95 until CEN has itself adopted Fortran 95. BSI are to approach CEN urging them not to cause undue delay. This is to advise you of the situation and to ask you to bring this matter to the attention of your own national bodies. David Muxworthy