A radical suggestion for g95

[Toon Moene]

Joe Buck wrote:

> 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

Fully agree.

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

Oh, we probably have to support g95 and f95 as aliases for the compiler 
anyway, to make it transparent for all those users coming in from rival 
U*X implementations :-)

Now the interesting question is what the nickname for the Fortran 2000 
compiler will be (f2000 ? f2k ? FMM ?).

Cheers,

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