From owner-sc22wg5 Wed Oct 16 12:49:28 2002 Received: from taka.swcp.com (taka.swcp.com [198.59.115.12]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA03339 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:49:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from walt@fortran.com) Received: from fortran.com (fortran.com [198.59.115.200] (may be forged)) by taka.swcp.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9G3K21O055618; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:20:03 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3DACDAC3.5260FEFD@fortran.com> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:19:31 -0700 From: Walt Brainerd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD EBM-Compaq (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Malcolm Cohen CC: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2603) The name of the language References: <200210151636.SAA92868@dkuug.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=10.0 tests=X_ACCEPT_LANG,REFERENCES X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Malcolm Cohen wrote: > 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. This was sorta the joke, as well as the tradition, but . . . > 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)! . . . this answers some of my objections to the current name, so I could vote for this. A good suggestion to consider. Thanks. > > Cheers, > -- > ...........................Malcolm Cohen, NAG Ltd., Oxford, U.K. > (malcolm@nag.co.uk) -- Walt Brainerd The Fortran Company 6025 N. Wilmot Road Tucson, Arizona 85750 USA +1-520-760-1397 voice & fax +1-877-355-6640 voice & fax http://www.fortran.com walt at fortran dot com