Fortran: The Road Ahead II

[Toon Moene]

I wrote:

> > The document reference number is ISO/IEC 1539-1:1997.

And Ulrich replied:

>  Are you sure 1536 as the base number is correct?  If it
>  is a newly assigned number (and if I understand the ISO
>  procedures this is necessary) it must be a much higher
>  number and 15xxx is much more reasonable.

This is what I found using the search engine (string "fortran") on  
their site ( http://www.iso.ch ):

ISO/IEC 1539-1:1997
Information technology -- Programming languages -- Fortran - Part  
1: Base language

Edition: 1 (monolingual)
Number of pages: 346
Price code: XH
Technical committee / subcommittee: JTC 1 / SC 22
ICS: 35.060
Descriptors: advanced language, artificial languages, computer  
software, data processing, programming languages, FORTRAN
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Last updated on 1997-12-06

Cheers,
Toon.