[J3] [EXTERNAL] Fortran annex to 24772 and the work with WG23 on "Guidance to Avoiding Vulnerabilities in Programming Languages through Language Selection and Use"

[Bill Long]

> On Jan 23, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Van Snyder via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2020-01-23 at 13:04 -0500, Vipul Parekh via J3 wrote:
>> -  Fortran standard has "obsolescent" and "deleted" but not
>> "deprecated'.
> 
> When the use of the term was first introduced during the development of
> Fortran 90, somebody commented "Please don't deprecate anything."  When
> I get up in the morning I shave, shower, and deprecate."
> 
> 


Fascinating bit of history.  Thanks for sharing.  

I would note that the MPI group does use the “deprecated” term in their spec.  (I’ll pass on expounding on any parallels…)

As long as everyone understands what “obsolescent” means, I think we are OK.

Cheers,
Bill


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