Re: A question about graphic I/O

From: Ken Plotkin (kplotkin_at_nospam-cox.net)
Date: 06/19/04 

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:45:22 -0400

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 03:25:53 -0400, Madhusudan Singh
<spammers-go-here@yahoo.com> wrote:

[snip]
> The presence of cross platform GUI toolkits seems to indicate that it is at
>least possible. Is it the reluctance of vendors who sit at standards
>committees and have competing products ?

I've been staring at this thread for a while, pondering the
discussion.

Why stop at standardizing GUIs? There are so many other things out
there. I'd like to see errors standardized. Not error messages, but
the errors themselves, i.e., the goofs that we Fortran users are
allowed to make. We can make errors on any platform. Some are
common, but some are platform specific, sometimes even depending on
the hardware.

I think the committee should focus on this for Fortran 2004.

Ken Plotkin

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