Fortran 8x—its public review

Abstract

The ANSI Standards Subcommittee X3J3 has recently released the draft proposed Fortran standard [1] for public review. The proposed revision, informally known as Fortran 8x, is being reviewed, beginning October 23, 1987, and ending February 23, 1988. It represents an upward compatible revision of the current standard Fortran 77 [2] in the sense that all Fortran 77 standard-conforming programs conform to the proposed Fortran 8x language.