From owner-sc22wg5 Tue Oct 15 18:36:16 2002 Received: from smtp-2.star.net.uk (smtp-2.star.net.uk [212.125.75.71]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id SAA92858 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:36:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from malcolm@brackley.nag.co.uk) Received: (qmail 28303 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2002 16:36:24 -0000 Received: from nagmx1.nag.co.uk (HELO nag.co.uk) (62.231.145.242) by smtp-2.star.net.uk with SMTP; 15 Oct 2002 16:36:24 -0000 Received: from brackley.nag.co.uk (brackley.nag.co.uk [192.156.217.21]) by nag.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04395 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:36:19 +0100 (BST) Received: (from malcolm@localhost) by brackley.nag.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g9FGcKa00276 for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:38:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from malcolm) From: Malcolm Cohen Message-Id: <200210151638.g9FGcKa00276@brackley.nag.co.uk> Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2602) The name of the language To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:38:20 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Walt Brainerd writes: > I would propose "Fortran 03"... Well, I'm not a fan of "Fortran 2000", but I really don't like that one. As Rich says, it sounds like an old Fortran, not a new one. Dropping the first 2 digits of the year is like "so last century". My personal preference would be for "Fortran 2002" (the year of the first CD). It's also palindromic (like 66 and 77)! Cheers, -- ...........................Malcolm Cohen, NAG Ltd., Oxford, U.K. (malcolm@nag.co.uk)