From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Fri May 23 09:57:30 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) id h4N7vUZT038562 for sc22wg5-domo; Fri, 23 May 2003 09:57:30 +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 cmailm2.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailm2.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.210]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h4N7vOEc038554 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 09:57:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from miles@bluechiplearning.com) Received: from modem-80.ballistic.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.25.136.80]) by cmailm2.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19J7Ra-000158-Ra for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Fri, 23 May 2003 08:58:27 +0100 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 08:57:44 +0100 Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2729) Name of the language From: Miles Ellis To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200305221604.h4MG48S1032762@dkuug.dk> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk Personally I prefer Fortran 2003, essentially for John's first reason - although I think I expressed it before as the year in which the final CD was published. However, I think that those who refer to confusion between Fortran 2000 and Fortran 2003 have a good point. Fortran 8X was always clearly a temporary name - the only question being whether X was a decimal digit - as was Fortran 9X. So there was no confusion when we chose Fortran 90 and Fortran 95. But Fortran 2000 does sound more precise and, I suspect, those who have heard about it will mostly have assumed that this is its actual name; it would have been different if we had used the name Fortran 200X. (Fortran 2K could also have meant Fortran 2048, of course!) So, on balance, despite my personal preference, I suspect that we should keep the existing name. Miles ----------- Miles Ellis Email: miles@bluechiplearning.com Phone: +44 1629 57542 Mobile: +44 7958 465614