Re: F95 supports F77 too, right? (was Re: GCC 4.0 vs. 3.5

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> Indeed many organizations I know ban any use of software
> whose version number ends .0 and this has become an unofficial
> signal that software may be a more unreliable state, so we
> need to undersatnd that signal in this change too. I personally
> think the signal is appropriate in this case.
Probably appropriate.  However, 3.5.0 is also a .0 number, of another 
sort....

I think for marketing reasons we should not call the next version 4.0.0 
unless it defintely features substantial improvement (in stability, 
performance, or whatever) from the end-user POV.  We don't want to 
saddle the 4.0 series with a bad name.