Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 11:21:10 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com, grog@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FORTRAN vs. Fortran (was: November 5th is Clang-Day) Message-ID: <20121102162110.GB92218@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <201211021021.qA2ALJLF020996@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20121102060818.GB48921@eureka.lemis.com> <201211021021.qA2ALJLF020996@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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--GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 10:21:19AM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 17:08:18 +1100 > From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> > To: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> > Subject: FORTRAN vs. Fortran (was: November 5th is Clang-Day) >=20 > 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 <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > come on guys, fortran is not case sensitive... >=20 > 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. If you read either my annoucment or the diff closly you will note that the default it only changing for x86 architectures. -- Brooks --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFQk/L1XY6L6fI4GtQRAu1WAKDANoPoAyj2krsIvmuiEAgHtcQM1ACgqaxJ imXPKisgX8V8iusqnNX3WAI= =ByH2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN--
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