From owner-sc22wg5 Mon Oct 14 10:55:55 2002 Received: from pheriche.sun.com (pheriche.sun.com [192.18.98.34]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA82067 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:55:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from corbett@mpkmail.Eng.Sun.COM) Received: from engmail2sun.Eng.Sun.COM ([129.144.134.19]) by pheriche.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA10162; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 02:56:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: from phys-mpkmaila (phys-mpkmaila.Eng.Sun.COM [129.146.18.131]) by engmail2sun.Eng.Sun.COM (8.12.2+Sun/8.12.2/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id g9E8u4PG020807; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 01:56:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lupa (lupa.Eng.Sun.COM [129.146.78.104]) by mpkmail.eng.sun.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 1 (built Apr 2 2002)) with SMTP id <0H3Y002NERHG0E@mpkmail.eng.sun.com>; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 01:56:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 01:56:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Corbett Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2599) The name of the language To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk, Miles@bluechiplearning.com Reply-to: Robert Corbett Message-id: <0H3Y002NFRHG0E@mpkmail.eng.sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.3.4p_5 SunOS 5.7 sun4u sparc Content-type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-MD5: m4Xhs2b0BYqPsokwROmqcA== > 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. What a great idea! If Fortran lasts long enough, we can eventually get to Fortran 66. Sincerely, Bob Corbett