An alternate design for Fortran 8X
J. Fullerton · ACM SIGPLAN Fortran Forum · 1987
The current language revision effort by the ANSI X3J3 committee is suffering from substantial discord among the member organizations [13, 5] and the user community. The largest stumbling blocks appear to be the size [12] and complexity of the draft language. Both of these can be substantially reduced by a careful redesign of the language.