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That’s good news! Fortran has always suffered from too few online resources of good quality. No wonder people prefer other languages - I bought some used Metcalf books, but an online, searchable reference is much better.

I didn’t intend to say that «not official» means «bad». I learned a lot of stuff from «non-official web pages» over the years.



> I didn’t intend to say that «not official» means «bad».

Yes, I know, I understood that. Thank you. I was reacting to the term official, since it is an interesting question what official means for Fortran, since in a way it was "abandoned", there was the ISO committee as the only official body, but nobody wanted to provide an official place for it on the internet (the most official place was actually the Fortran Wikipedia article). So we volunteered that. In a way, I think it could already be treated as official, or if not, hopefully in a few years most people will treat it as the de-facto official. Kind of like the git webpage has migrated from https://repo.or.cz/ to https://git-scm.com/, but both in a way are unofficial, but the second one is a nice modern webpage and most people liked it and accepted it as official. I don't know the people behind either webpage.




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