A radical suggestion for g95

Joe Buck jbuck@synopsys.com
Wed Jul 16 20:05:00 GMT 2003


As has been pointed out, the name "g95" has major problems because
eventually the compiler will support a newer rev of the Fortran language
than 1995.

I have a radical suggestion.  What if we use the proper name (Fortran)
to cover our implementation of the latest version of the language?  That is:

name of the driver: gfortran
name of the library: libgfortran.a or .so
name of the subdirectory: fortran

Yes, gfortran is longer to type, but the compile step can be done with
gcc and most folks will use a Makefile anyway.

The original implementers of Unix had 110 baud teletypes which is why
they liked two and three letter names for everything.  We no longer
suffer under such limitations.



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