From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 2 10:21:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DFCA84; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 10:21:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932C18FC0A; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 10:21:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from irix.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.39] helo=ncs.bris.ac.uk) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TUENM-0002BX-8U; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:21:25 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncs.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TUENL-00003n-Vc; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:21:19 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qA2ALJWC020997; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 10:21:19 GMT (envelope-from mexas@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id qA2ALJLF020996; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 10:21:19 GMT (envelope-from mexas) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 10:21:19 GMT From: Anton Shterenlikht Message-Id: <201211021021.qA2ALJLF020996@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> To: erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com, grog@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FORTRAN vs. Fortran (was: November 5th is Clang-Day) In-Reply-To: <20121102060818.GB48921@eureka.lemis.com> X-Spam-Score: -1.6 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:21:33 -0000 Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 17:08:18 +1100 From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" To: Erich Dollansky Subject: FORTRAN vs. Fortran (was: November 5th is Clang-Day) On Friday, 2 November 2012 at 12:21:03 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 21:59:17 -0700 > Steve Kargl wrote: >> >> BTW, the name of the language is "Fortran". It's been "Fortran" >> for the last 30-something years. > > I never realised the name change. It seems that I am not alone with > this. Nor I. Looking at the Wikipedia page, I discover that it had been spelt "Fortran" as early as 1956, and there's even a copy of the 1956 Fortran manual online: http://www.fortran.com/FortranForTheIBM704.pdf Interesting reading. come on guys, fortran is not case sensitive... Anyway I guess it's good news that LLVM is being used also by Cray and Nvidia. It's a shame though that, with LLVM as the default compiler, further development of FreeBSD/ia64 and FreeBSD/sparc64 will probably suffer and then stop altogether. Anton