(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5473) Does Fortran have a logo?

[Bill Long]

On Mar 30, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Lionel, Steve <steve.lionel at intel.com> wrote:

> A customer wrote me and asked, ?Does Fortran have an icon or logo?  My colleague is putting together some material and found that, unlike Java, C, C++, etc. that Fortran doesn?t appear to have any ?official? logo? From a marketing perspective, maybe this would help bring attention to ?Modern Fortran?.?
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> I am pretty sure we have no such thing. I wonder if we could find some graphic designer to come up with a nice one. (I suppose a capital F with card-punch holes is out of the question?) Too bad the old Digital Visual Fortran ?Flying F? graphic couldn?t be used ? it would have been perfect.

Lawyers?

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> He also griped about seeing lots of Fortran code in all uppercase, making it look ?old fashioned?.

I largely blame Microsoft, who have not updated their spelling dictionary for 25 years and continue to tell unsuspecting writers that ?Fortran? is misspelled. 

Cheers,
Bill


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> Steve

> <DVF.png>_______________________________________________

The one you showed looks nice. 

Cheers,
Bill



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Bill Long                                                                       longb at cray.com
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