From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Thu May 22 18:32:21 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) id h4MGWLih033105 for sc22wg5-domo; Thu, 22 May 2003 18:32:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk) X-Authentication-Warning: ptah.dkuug.dk: majordom set sender to owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk using -f Received: from mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov (mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov [130.134.81.12]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h4MGUuEc033098 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 18:32:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov) Received: from mail.dfrc.nasa.gov by mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov with ESMTP for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:29:28 -0700 Received: from altair.dfrc.nasa.gov ([130.134.20.211]) by mail.dfrc.nasa.gov (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-71686U2500L200S0V35) with ESMTP id gov for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:31:49 -0700 Received: from altair.dfrc.nasa.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by altair.dfrc.nasa.gov (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h4MGVo2D003767 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:31:50 -0700 Received: (from maine@localhost) by altair.dfrc.nasa.gov (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h4MGVoH7003763; Thu, 22 May 2003 09:31:50 -0700 From: Richard Maine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <16076.64373.936473.692337@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 09:31:49 -0700 To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: (SC22WG5.2729) Name of the language In-Reply-To: <200305221604.h4MG48S1032762@dkuug.dk> References: <200305022236.h42MaukZ085984@dkuug.dk> <200305221604.h4MG48S1032762@dkuug.dk> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.4 (patch 8) "Honest Recruiter" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk John Reid writes: > I would like to switch the name to Fortran 2003... > Comments, please. I still don't like it, for mostly the same reasons as before, none of them earth-shattering, I agree. 1. Lots of people have gotten used to using the Fortran 2000 name. I certainly have. Will take conscious effort over a period of time to break myself of it. Perhaps that's just a sign of my age and the way habits ingrain so much. And perhaps this prejudices me and makes me look for other reasons, such as... 2. It is throughout all kinds of documents and postings. Not only will we have to change existing habits, we will never be able to remove all the existing references to the name Fortran 2000. Thus, we'd put ourselves in the position of forever having to explain to people that all the stuff they read about Fortran 2000 really applies to Fortran 2003. 3. F2k is such a handy abbreviation. Rolls off the tongue (or keyboard) so much more easily than any variant of Fortran 2003. Anyway, I think so. I consider #2 to be the most significant. It will probably turn into a FAQ on places like comp.lang.fortran. "Whatever happened to Fortran 2000?" -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; Richard.Maine@nasa.gov | experience comes from bad judgment. | -- Mark Twain