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Re: Dynamic Memory Allocation in FORTRAN, Question

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From: Robert Corbett
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 22:52
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In article <1993Jan4.195942.9993@newshost.lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles) writes:
>
>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.  As far as I can tell, the Fortran 90 document uses
>these terms throughout.  (It solves the question of whether Fortran 77
>is upper- or lower-case by using small caps for all letters after the
>initial `F'.)
>
>-- 
>J. Giles

"Fortran 90" appears nowhere in the title of ISO/IEC 1539:1991.
Drafts of ISO/IEC 1539:1991 used the title "Fortran 90".  If
you are still using one of the drafts, you might want to plunk
down the $153 dollars to get the approved standard.

The title of ISO/IEC 1539:1991 is

*Information technology - Programming languages - Fortran*.

There is no "90" there.

						Yours truly,
						Robert Corbett
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