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In article <1993Jan4.195942.9993@newshost.lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov 
(J. Giles) writes (amongst other things):
>FORTRAN 77 is the designation recommended by the standard document itself
>(ANSI X3.9-1978, Forward):

>Similarly, "Fortran 90" is actually the *title* of the ISO version
>of the new standard.  Whether these designations are *official*
>or merely *officially informal*, they are clearly the appropriate
>names to use.

This is nit-picking, but let's get things right.  The ISO document ISO/IEC
1539 : 1991 (E) has as its title "Information technology - Programming
languages - Fortran", i.e.  no "90" and capitalized as shown.  The
introduction starts 'This International Standard specifies the form and
establishes the interpretation of programs expressed in the Fortran language
(known informally as "Fortran 90").' Thereafter the document generally refers
to the new language simply as "Fortran" and to the previous standard as
"FORTRAN 77", actually using a font with "ORTRAN" in small capitals. 

There is only one international standard, the 1991 one which superseded
ISO/IEC 1539:1980 (that is FORTRAN 77).  The US on the other hand has both
X3.9-1978 FORTRAN and X3.198-1992 Fortran 90.  The "90" is part of the
official name, needed to distinguish the two standards. 
David Muxworthy