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j3 mailing list 7 66 (7/14/2008 9:53:44 PM) comp.lang.fortran I can't post to the j3 mailing list, but there are a couple of articles I'd like to respond to there. I hesitate to just post them here (though their context is clear, some members may regard it as unfair to p... James

Public review 47 55 (7/5/2008 6:36:13 AM) comp.lang.fortran The regular fireworks are over. Let me see if I can light up a few of my own. Following (in separate articles) are the public review comments I'm sending in. I've tried to keep the number down, and I've trie... James

the g0 edit descriptor 7 59 (7/3/2008 11:21:40 PM) comp.lang.fortran If anyone here can answer, I won't send the following as an F2008 public review response: I can't really tell in the document whether g0 is allowed to be g0.d (that is, a digits part). If it can, then it's ... James

IMPURE ELEMENTALs 7 56 (7/1/2008 9:39:01 PM) comp.lang.fortran I'm in the middle of writing some comments for the 2008 public review, and I'd like some discussion on this one before I submit it. I don't see the value in having IMPURE ELEMENTAL procedures. There are no exa... James

First day of summer? 9 82 (6/21/2008 12:34:55 AM) comp.lang.fortran Apropos of nothing in particular, but is it only in the US the the day traditionally called "Midsummer's Day" is called the "Official first day of Summer"? Who is this official? In what government does he or ... James

Part 4 of Short Steps Toward Generic Programming: KIND Genericity 8 60 (2/13/2005 5:28:43 AM) comp.lang.fortran In this part I will again be discussing a feature that has been separately recommended in a slightly different form (by a committee member). Using an example that I started with in part 1 the feature could be... James

Part 3 of Short Steps Toward Generic Programming: Attribute Inquiry 18 55 (2/12/2005 12:59:14 AM) comp.lang.fortran In this part I will discuss some other features related to the idea of interface assertions. Some of these features have been the subject of proposals to the committee (even from members) in other forms. Give... James

Part 2 of Short Steps Toward Generic Programming: Specification Assertions 47 61 (2/6/2005 1:59:48 AM) comp.lang.fortran In this part I propose several features. The first of them is the main feature that forms the basis of all the rest of my unified proposal. Each of the following parts build upon additional uses of this firs... James

Part 1 of Short Steps Toward Generic Programming: The GENERIC keyword 2 61 (2/4/2005 3:02:32 AM) comp.lang.fortran As I mentioned in the introduction, this part of my generic programming proposal is separate from the rest. It represents a syntactic convenience that make code more legible and easier to maintain. Generic pr... James

Short Steps Toward Generic Programming: Introduction 0 63 (2/3/2005 1:56:08 AM) comp.lang.fortran I've now become rather over-committed with respect to the newsgroup since I have promised to publicize the present crop of Fortran committee working documents and to fully describe (again, but with more detail)... James

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module vs interface 14 57 (8/4/2008 7:40:10 PM) comp.lang.fortran hello friends, in Chapman's book, the "Good programming practice" advices to prefer module over interface to make explicit interface of a subroutine/ function. where i have many subroutine contained in a modul... bnrj.rudra (344)

Fortran vs. Matlab on linear algebra 22 108 (8/6/2008 1:45:21 AM) comp.lang.fortran I have revisited a topic from 2001, using ifort 10.1.011 and Matlab 7.5.0, to compare the speed of matmul() with the speed of a matrix multiply in Matlab. Here is the code: ! To compare speed of Matlab and F... g.bogle (180)

specification-stmt 1 81 (8/8/2008 8:34:40 PM) comp.lang.fortran I'm not sure whether I can still send to thie J-3 list. We'll see... Apparently not, probably because I unsubscribed from recieving it. (Just too much there for me no longer being involved in the day-to-day wor... nospam47 (9742)

Interface Q 4 63 (8/10/2008 3:45:14 PM) comp.lang.fortran I really want to be able to do the below, without putting the kind definitions in another module. Not being able to do this, makes it impossible to directly translate my C header files into a simgle module ... garylscott (1357)

Compaq Visual Fortran 53 114 (8/15/2008 9:21:08 PM) comp.lang.fortran Does anyone have a Compaq Visual Fortran compiler that they would not mind parting with? I am willing to buy one. Old Power flow software I have will only work with a Compaq fortran compiler. ... delynhelm (3)

ordering integer array 50 64 (8/15/2008 11:08:32 PM) comp.lang.fortran I have a program whose output is an array of integers. implicit none integer, parameter:: sides = 6 integer, parameter:: trials = 100 integer, dimension(sides)::A integer, dimension(trials)::C integer:: b, ... ron7715 (217)

Surprise #2 127 105 (8/19/2008 9:34:50 AM) comp.lang.fortran Gosh, this was a big surprise. I though Fortran was dead as a Dodo! Why are people still using it? I was a great fan of it until about 1997 when I moved to Matlab...then LabView. Why the need to resurect Fortra... kronecker (108)

J3 Responses to Public Comments 18 58 (8/20/2008 12:02:27 AM) comp.lang.fortran Hello, J3's response to the public comments has been posted to J3's web site at http://www.j3-fortran.org/doc/year/08/08-272.html html format is used to enable access to the primary documents as links. I'm ... dannagle (1019)

Help with nntp server (OT) 16 60 (8/20/2008 4:49:12 PM) comp.lang.fortran Sorry to bother you folks with this, but after returning to Germany after three years' absence, I've discovered that neither my old nor my new ISP provide an nntp server through which I can access this newsgrou... michaelmetcalf (810)

size of space to be allocated 20 60 (8/21/2008 8:03:46 PM) comp.lang.fortran Hi! Is there an easy way to get the size in bytes of an intricate user- defined type even if there is not yet a variable of this type? Something like: INTEGER, PARAMETER :: NMax = 10 TYPE MyType INTEGER(2... arjan.van.dijk (248)