Re: November 5th is Clang-Day

On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 12:21:03PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 21:59:17 -0700
> Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 10:29:45PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > >  - Not all libm tests pass.  More work by subject matter experts is
> > >    required to create tests cases for LLVM developers.  Most
> > > problems are not expected to be major in practice given that LLVM
> > > is being used for scientific computing in a number of products
> > > including Cray's FORTRAN compiler, most OpenCL compilers, and the
> > > Julia language.
> > 
> > Is there a knob to continue to use GCC as the default compiler?  
> > 
> > The above statement is somewhat troubling to those of us
> > who use FreeBSD as computational nodes.
> > 
> > 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.
> 

Many people, who see the word Fortran or FORTRAN, think of
Fortran 77 (X3J3/90.4, ISO 1539:1980).  Since then there 
have been several revisions to the language.  The revisions
are
Fortran 90, ISO/IEC 1539:1991
Fortran 95, ISO/IEC 1539-1:1997
Fortran 2003, ISO/IEC 1539-1:2004(E)
Fortran 2008, ISO/IEC 1539-1:2010 
and J3 is currently working on the next revision.  You can find
committee drafts of these standards via the gfortran wiki.

-- 
Steve