From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Thu May 29 22:43:03 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) id h4TKh3ml086048 for sc22wg5-domo; Thu, 29 May 2003 22:43:03 +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 cmailm5.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailm5.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.21]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h4TKgvEc086041 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 22:42:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from miles@bluechiplearning.com) Received: from modem-257.ballistic.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.25.137.1]) by cmailm5.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19LUFn-0003J2-Do for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Thu, 29 May 2003 21:44:03 +0100 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 21:43:51 +0100 Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2751) Name of the language From: Miles Ellis To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200305291721.h4THL4tG085129@dkuug.dk> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk On 29/5/03 6:21 pm Kurt W Hirchert said: > At 03:20 PM 5/28/2003 -0700, Walt Brainerd wrote: >> Kurt W Hirchert wrote: >>> 3. As a possible compromise between the Fortran 2003 and Fortran 2000 >>> camps, I suggest Fortran 2K. >>> >> "K" to me means 1000 (or, as Miles says, 1024), so I like this no >> better than Fortran 2000 (maybe even a little less). > > Rounded to the nearest K, 2003 _is_ 2K (regardless of which definition of K > you use). But so will be the next 100 or so revisions - until Fortran 2500 (or Fortran 2560, depending on your interpretation of 'K') becomes Fortran 3K ;-) Miles ----------- Miles Ellis Email: miles@bluechiplearning.com Phone: +44 1629 57542 Mobile: +44 7958 465614