Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 10:21:19 GMT From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com, grog@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FORTRAN vs. Fortran (was: November 5th is Clang-Day) Message-ID: <201211021021.qA2ALJLF020996@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20121102060818.GB48921@eureka.lemis.com>
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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) 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. 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
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