Re: [Chasm-interop-devel] followup from cca meeting

[Tom E. <tep...@ll...>]

Craig Rasmussen wrote:
> Matt mentioned an item in the discussion that came up that I didn't  
> understand.  He said that CCA had to support Fortran 90 codes so the  
> interoperability features now in the Intel, IBM, Cray, gfortran  
> (soon), ... compilers couldn't be used.
>   
There was still at least one person at the CCA meeting who asked us not 
to remove the FORTRAN 77 binding because people are still using it with 
old compilers (i.e., g77).

My sense of things is that there will probably be people using F90/95 
with old compilers for years to come as well.  Hence, the F90 binding 
should be targeted to todays and yesterday's F90/95 compilers rather 
than ones that have already started implementing the F2003 standard.

A new F2003 binding will start using F2003 capabilities. When will 
retire the F77 and F90 bindings when people stop using those languages.

Tom
> I know of no features that were removed by any compiler vendor in the  
> latest releases of their compilers.  If fact they all have strongly  
> stated that they will NEVER remove any feature, even if something  
> were to be removed from the standard.
>
> If I'm misunderstanding the issue, perhaps someone could kindly clue  
> me in.
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
>