(j3.2006) Units of measurement in Fortran

[Van Snyder]

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 22:06 -0700, Keith Bierman wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Van Snyder <van.snyder at jpl.nasa.gov>
> wrote:
>         I was an official reviewer for DoD-1, which became Ada.  I
>         tried in about 1981-1983 to convince DoD to include units in
>         Strawman, then in Woodenman, then in Tinman, then in Steelman,
>         then in Red, Green, Yellow, and Blue, then in Ada when it
>         finally had a name.  Colonel Whittaker said "Huh?"...
> 
> http://labs.oracle.com/projects/plrg/faq/index.html
> 
> But it's obviously not Fortran.next

Interesting.  It seems that Fortress has incorporated, and is being
praised for incorporating, at least two things that I have been
advocating for Fortran for a very long time: physical units and
dimensions (although this is not entirely a static problem), and
explicit fork-join constructs.

It seems that the thundering herd of "new" ideas is poised once again to
leave Fortran in the dust.