[comp.lang.fortran] fortran 8x | ANSI fortran standards committee X3J3

doug@calgary.UUCP (02/10/87)

	Does anybody out there have an idea of the progress that has been
make by the ANSI X3J3 committee?? I have developed a need to know if
it is practical to develop yet another fortran 77 compiler or should I
wait for the new standard.
			Thanks for your time 
			Doug Robinson

cdb@hpclla.UUCP (03/06/87)

The draft standard was voted out for public review in January.  At the
February meeting the committee did not get through all the comments made
by the members.  When all X3J3 and WG5 (ISO) comments are processed, the
draft will be forwarded to X3 as a recommended draft standard.  I tend 
to guess that the final standard will be published no earlier than 1991,
though that is probably not the date the Chair would quote.

                                                Carl Burch
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