Re: F95 standard

Joost <jv244@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The official version is just scanned txt.

I would recommend the latest draft of the fortran 95 standard:

http://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/97/97-007r2/pdf/97-007r2.pdf

which is very similar to the official one but text based (and thus
nicer to use). The latest standard (Fortran2003) even has convenient
links in the pdf (at least the draft, don't know about the official
one).

ISO messed up the pdf links in f2003. They have been bitched at about
it. :-(

I would say that 97-007r2 is more than "very similar" to the official
f95 standard. Since I'm the one who produced both the 97-007r2 document
and the paper document that was scanned to make what you bought, I know
exactly what the differences are. They are:

1. The 97-007r2 document has different page headers and footers; they
say "working draft" instead of having the ISO headers. Likewise, the
97-002 doesn't have the ISO front pages and copyright notice.

2. The 97-007r2 document has line numbers, which make it more handy to
cite exact lines.

3. As you noticed, the copy from ANSI is scanned. I wish they had
contacted me (the editor) for a pdf instead, but there is a long (and
continuing - sigh :-() history of internal communication problems in
ISO. Instead of communicating with me for a pdf, which I could have
given them, they scanned a paper copy that I had previously sent them.

The committee itself uses the 007r2 document. I suspect that several of
the committee members have never actually seen the "official" one.

As an aside, for those who might be curious about such things, the f95
standard document was produced using Adobe FrameMaker; the f2003
document was produced with LaTeX.

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