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

[Damian Rouson]

Also, I think the reason a lot of people use "deprecate" is because there
is a "Deprecated features" appendix in the books by Metcalf, Cohen, &
Reid.  The authors are careful to describe them as "deprecated by us" and
to list obsolescent and deleted features in a separate appendix, but given
that more people read books than read the standard for understandable
reasons, the term "deprecated features" is popular.

Damian

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 2:33 PM Bill Long via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org>
wrote:

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> > 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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