HEADS UP: Importing csup into base

[Steve Kargl]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:40:32PM -0500, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:00:36PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:41:20AM +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:18:07PM -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> > > > Even
> > > > though I do like to work with multiple computer languages (and
> > > > in fact there is a lot I like about Modula-3), I do think a tool
> > > > such as cvsup needs to be in a more universally-available and
> > > > widely-known language.
> > > 
> > > I like Modula-3 too (at least conceptually: I haven't found an
> > > excuse to code in it), but not "widely-known" is perhaps even an
> > > understatement.  I came across this site the other day:
> > > http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index
> > > Which I thought pretty interesting.  I noticed that Modula-3
> > > doesn't even make it into the top-100 popular languages, which
> > > puts it below Algol, Oberon, and Modula-2.
> > > 
> > 
> > Interesting site.  Guess which language in the top 20
> > has the most recently approved International standard?
> 
> Without even looking at the list... Fortran?
> 

Yep.  The February Headline declared Fortran as a dinosaur language;
yet it is one of the newest International standards.

http://www.j3-fortran.org/

-- 
Steve