woods@hao.UUCP (11/23/83)
Unfortunately, we can't call it net.lang.for*, since this is too similar to the already existing net.lang.forth . I am in favor of keeping up with where FORTRAN is moving to, and calling it net.lang.f77 . I suspect most of the discussion there would be about f77 anyhow. However, I do *not* want to restrict discussion to f77. Anyone have any serious objection to calling it net.lang.f77? If not, we will create the group over the weekend, if Mark Horton doesn't beat us to it. Comments? Greg "FORTRAN hacker" Woods -- {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!brl-bmd | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!kpno} !hao!woods
ken@turtleva.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) (11/27/83)
I'm bringing this over to net.new.group from net.lang because that's where discussion of this type belong. Fortran is with us to stay, like it or not, and a news group to discuss Fortran issues seems like a good idea. However, net.lang.f77 seems a little limiting, with a possible f88 just around the corner, so I propose net.lang.fortran. Ken Turkowski CADLINC, Palo Alto {decwrl,amd70}!turtlevax!ken