From owner-sc22wg5 Mon Oct 14 10:37:36 2002 Received: from he103war.uk.vianw.net (he103war.uk.vianw.net [195.102.249.210]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA81923 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:37:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Miles@bluechiplearning.com) Received: from [195.102.204.71] (helo=[195.102.204.71]) by he103war.uk.vianw.net with esmtp (Exim 4.04) id 1810j5-0000Yo-00 for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:37:23 +0100 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:36:29 +0100 Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2598) The name of the language From: Miles Ellis To: WG5 Mail List Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200210122214.AAA73002@dkuug.dk> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 12/10/02 11:13 pm Walt Brainerd said: . . > We have a tradition of "Fortran XX", where XX is close to the > year of publication. We were a little off with 77 and 90, a > little further off with 95, and will be way off with 00 (or > 2000). > > I think we should use a year from the current millenium. > > I would propose "Fortran 03", pronounced "Fortran Three". > We had a Fortran II and a Fortran IV, so why not Three? > '03 should be about one year behind publication date if all > goes well, restoring the tradition of 77 and 90. > I have a lot of sympathy for Walt's proposal. The names of Fortran 77, 90 and 95 were chosen because 1977, 1990 and 1995 were the years in which the (final) CD was sent out for ballot. In the first two cases the Standard was published the following year (just in the second case - in December 1991 if my memory serves me right ;-), but the Fortran 95 DIS balloting was delayed slightly in order that a final Corrigendum to F90 could be submitted for ballot before the F95 DIS, with the result that it was not ready for publication until early 1997. Following these precedents, therefore, since the plan is for the final CD to be submitted for ballot in August 2003 the name of the language should, as Walt suggests, be Fortran 03. I am not sure that I agree with his suggestion that this is pronounced Fortran Three, but its 'official' informal name should certainly be written as Fortran 03. Miles -------------- Dr Miles Ellis Managing Director: Blue Chip Learning Limited Telephone: +44 1629 57542 Mobile: +44 7958 465614 Email: Miles@bluechiplearning.com