Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 08:25:58 +0000 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FORTRAN vs. Fortran (was: November 5th is Clang-Day) Message-ID: <0555D6CB-5DB0-4C48-9D4D-8393978CBB1E@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAOgwaMtgUUBeHzd5U6m03Dts5gYmjuCssV%2B2Bm_112yrX5BgyA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20121102032945.GF65074@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20121102045917.GA77204@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20121102122103.4afc93e5@X220.ovitrap.com> <20121102060818.GB48921@eureka.lemis.com> <CAOgwaMtgUUBeHzd5U6m03Dts5gYmjuCssV%2B2Bm_112yrX5BgyA@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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