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                  BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
           COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (IST/5)
                                
     UK National Activity Report presented to the meeting of
   ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 (Fortran), Dresden, July 22-26, 1996

Membership and meetings
The BSI Fortran Panel has 28 members, including observers and a graphics
liaison member.  Most of the panel's business is conducted by mail and
e-mail and it meets only when there are issues to be resolved which
cannot be decided otherwise.  There have thus been no panel meetings
since the last WG5 meeting.  Two of its members are also members of the
BSI Committee on Programming Languages, the national counterpart of
SC22.  The number of UK- based members of X3J3 remains at one (Graham
Barber). 

Fortran 2000 Requirements
A trawl by e-mail was made amongst the general Fortran user population
for requirements for Fortran 2000.  These were supplemented by those
proposed by individual Fortran panel members and the suggestions which
survived the panel's subsequent vetting process were submitted for
inclusion in the Repository of Requirements.  The policy was adopted
that where an existing entry already covered the UK's requirements, no
further submission would be made. 

WG5 activities
As members of WG5 will be aware, the UK has been active in the WG5
development bodies drafting technical reports; some of the editors are
from the UK.  Further, the project editor of the Varying Length
Character Strings in Fortran standard is developing the annex of the
standard to make use of features in Fortran 95. 

Fortran Futures Conference
A international conference and exhibition on Fortran Futures, jointly
organized by NAG and Visual Numerics with support from the British
Computer Society Fortran Specialist Group and Scientific Computing World
magazine, was held near London on April 25 & 26, 1996.  The attendance
was about 100 and the topics covered included Fortran 90, Fortran 95, F,
HPF and Fortran 2000.  Further information, including some abstracts and
papers, is on http://www.nag.co.uk/other/ff96.html. 

British Computer Society Fortran Specialist Group
Apart from the conference the British Computer Society Fortran
Specialist Group, the main open forum for discussion of Fortran matters
in the UK, has held one meeting since the last WG5 meeting.  Much of its
former role of distributing and discussing Fortran information in the UK
has been subsumed by e-mail lists and newsgroups. 



                                             David Muxworthy
                                             IST/5/-/5 (Fortran) Convenor
                                             July 19, 1996