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Subject: Re: FORTRAN vs. Fortran (was: November 5th is Clang-Day)
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On 2 Nov 2012, at 08:18, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:

> Very many years ago , when 2010 was a very distant future , I do not
> remember the name of the writer , who wrote approximately :
>=20
> "In 2010 , there will be Fortran , but a Fortran which may be =
different ."

I remember a talk in the mid '90s by someone from Sun's HPC team where =
he said 'I don't know what the syntax or semantics of the language we =
will be using for HPC in 20 years time will be, but I do know one thing =
about it: it will be called Fortran'

Although the response to GCC's recent decision to drop support for =
Fortran 77 showed that that language will probably be called Fortran =
77...

David