To: J3 Members J3/17-193 From: David Muxworthy Subject: Informal name of the revised language Date: 2017 September 21 Discussion: ---------- The following was discussed as a proposal for the UK vote on the second CD. It gained near-unanimous support but as we operate by consensus it was not included in the final vote. This is to bring it to the attention of J3 for information and possible action. Proposal: -------- The language should renamed Fortran 2017 since it has developed incrementally over the past two years and it is no longer true that the final definition took place in 2015. Rationale: --------- We have had: content informal published finalized name 1990 90 1991 1996 95 1997 2004 03 2004 2010 08 2010 A three-year gap is looking too far backwards and would make it look as if the language were out of date already. Fortran already suffers in some quarters from the perception that it exists only as a legacy language and to publish Fortran 2015 in 2018 could even attract derision. Other comments arising during the discussion were to use Fortran 2018, Fortran 2020 (the language for the future) or to use a naming scheme without a year in it. Edits: ----- Change "2015" to "2017" (or whatever) at front cover [xviii:2] p1 [xviii:4] p1 [xviii:5] p1 (twice) [xviii:7] p2