(j3.2006) [ukfortran] (SC22WG5.5477) Does Fortran have a logo?

[N.M. Maclaren]

On Mar 30 2015, Walt Brainerd wrote:

>We used the following as an F icon.
>Maybe it would be a candidate for Fortran.
>
>It is a capital F in Pythagoras font, so I
>don't think anybody owns it, but who knows.

It looks as if it is free.  My reaction is that Fortran
in Pythagoras would be as good as most icons, except that
I would put some white space between the 'r' and the 't';
running them together is just plain perverse.

I don't understand this fetish for icons, myself, but it
does seem to tick some people's boxes.

And, in response to another post, Fortran code in all
capitals is nothing like as bad as C/Unix code in all
miniscules, if for no other reason that it is a damn
sight harder to read the latter when every letter is
significant.  The idiocy of people who claim that all
minicules is easier to read (because it is for prose,
with a fivefold redundancy) beggars belief.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.