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In article <lksa68INNkpt@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, corbett@lupa.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Corbett) writes:
> In article <1993Jan5.141226.25607@edf.fr> cabhhmm@cli74aa.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Michele Morin 5115 A408) writes:
> >In the ISO/IEC 1539 : 1991 (E) document, I find, at the beginning, 
> >in the Foreword :
> >FORTRAN 77 is an archival standard in the United States.
> >Fortran 90 was developed jointly by the X3 tecnical subcommittee X3J3 
> >and IEC/ISO JTC1/SC22/WG5. It is identical to ISO/IEC 1539 : 1991, the
> >International Fortran Standard.
> >
> >Michele Morin.
> 
> It seemed odd to me that ISO/IEC 1539 : 1991 (E) would claim to be identical
> to ISO/IEC 1539 : 1991, so I pulled out my copy of ISO/IEC 1539 : 1991 (E)
> and checked.  I found no such claim in the foreword.  There also is no reference
> to FORTRAN 77, X3J3, or IEC/ISO JTC1/SC22/WG5.  It does say
> 
>      International Standard ISO/IEC 1539 was prepared by
>      Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC 1, Information technology.
> 

The foreword pages of drafts, the ISO standard, and possibly the
ANSI version of the standard (if there does turn out to be one)
are DIFFERENT.  The rest of the document is the same.  So I think
everybody is right (or wrong) on this one.
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