25 Sep
2015
25 Sep
'15
12:33 p.m.
?below...?
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:00 PM, <cctech-request at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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From: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
http://www.eah-jena.de/~kleine/history/languages/ansi-x3dot9
-1966-Fortran66.pdf
The surprising thing is how spare the ANSI document is: 36 pages,
including appendices.
Compare to, say, F95...
?Chuck,
I sent your comment to one of the guys on the current ANSI standard, his
reply:
"Fortran 2015 is currently 617 pages and will go some
more before publication"?
25 Sep
25 Sep
12:56 p.m.
On 09/25/2015 12:33 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
"Fortran 2015 is currently 617 pages and will go
some more before
publication"?
It does make one curious to ask if *any* language has ever had a smaller
manual/specification than any previous version.
If the answer is "no", then we must have a new "law":
"Languages and their documentation will become ever more voluminous and
incomprehensible"
--Chuck
1:19 p.m.
New subject: Scheme specifications - Re: cctech Digest, Vol 15, Issue 25
On 2015-09-25 3:56 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 09/25/2015 12:33 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
Wasn't Scheme r7rs smaller and simpler than the widely derided Scheme r6rs?
--Toby
"Fortran 2015 is currently 617 pages and
will go some more before
publication"?
It does make one curious to ask if *any* language has ever had a smaller
manual/specification than any previous version.
If the answer is "no", then we must have a new "law":
"Languages and their documentation will become ever more voluminous and
incomprehensible"
--Chuck
1:25 p.m.
On 9/25/2015 1:56 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 09/25/2015 12:33 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
Does the include the source code too?
"Fortran 2015 is currently 617 pages and
will go some more before
publication"?
It does make one curious to ask if *any* language has ever had a smaller
manual/specification than any previous version.
If the answer is "no", then we must have a new "law":
"Languages and their documentation will become ever more voluminous and
incomprehensible" --Chuck
2:36 p.m.
On 09/25/2015 01:25 PM, ben wrote:
Does the include the source code too?
Source code to what? The compiler? The run-time? Nowhere does any
specification that I'm aware of state that there has to be either. Just
a human/robot/monkey following the rules laid down in the specification.
--Chuck
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