On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 10:21:19AM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 17:08:18 +1100 > From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <g...@freebsd.org> > To: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com> > Subject: FORTRAN vs. Fortran (was: November 5th is Clang-Day) > > On Friday, 2 November 2012 at 12:21:03 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 21:59:17 -0700 > > Steve Kargl <s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > >> > >> BTW, the name of the language is "Fortran". It's been "Fortran" > >> for the last 30-something years. > > > > I never realised the name change. It seems that I am not alone with > > this. > > Nor I. Looking at the Wikipedia page, I discover that it had been > spelt "Fortran" as early as 1956, and there's even a copy of the 1956 > Fortran manual online: http://www.fortran.com/FortranForTheIBM704.pdf > Interesting reading. > > come on guys, fortran is not case sensitive... > > Anyway I guess it's good news that LLVM > is being used also by Cray and Nvidia. > It's a shame though that, with LLVM as the > default compiler, further development of > FreeBSD/ia64 and FreeBSD/sparc64 > will probably suffer and then stop altogether.
If you read either my annoucment or the diff closly you will note that the default it only changing for x86 architectures. -- Brooks
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