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FORTRAN 2003 Accepted as Standard
GraWil writes "Despite the nay sayers citing its death in 1965, the FORTRAN standards committee has now released the final FORTRAN 2003 specification. In an announcement to the comp.lang.fortran group, Michael Metcalf annouced that 'Fortran 2003 has passed its ballot with flying colours: 20 yeses, 0 noes, 8 abstains.' Strictly speaking, the 2003 and past standards are not freely available but drafts can be found online. FORTRAN 2003 is an upwardly-compatible extension of the current standard, FORTRAN 95, adding and extending support for exception handling, object-oriented programming, and improved interoperability with the C language. In other FORTRAN news, the GNU FORTRAN 95 compiler has made amazing progress over the past year. Gfortran will be part of gcc-4.0 when released (probably in 2005)."
Halh an hour after Fortran 2003 was announced on slashdot, the silence is deafening. Have most people migrated to other languages? I often heard that the amount of legacy code will make fortran survive for a long time. Or is it just that the sets of fortran users and of slashdoters do not intersect?
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Twisted visions of late nights hunched over the green glow of my IBM XT sweating through trying to write a Fortran 77 program to data crunch my analytical Chem class lab reports are running through my brain like nails on a blackboard.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
I'm waiting for FORTRAN XP.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
Writing F77 code in the 60's????