Recommend that the title be changed to capitalize only the first letter
of the name FORTRAN. Just a nit but since the word "forum" is lower
cased, it could be argued that it isn't being done as a common practice
of upper casing the title. It would appear to be perpetuating the
former obsolescent practice of upper casing the name. I very much like
the improved, slick cover versus the prior one. I think we can still do
better (e.g. full color). You could produce a very appealing
magazine-quality document on a home computer nowadays for next to
nothing. I suppose there is an ACM template of some sort being followed
(I hope it has little relationship to APA format which is about as
obsolete as you can get).

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Gary Scott wrote:

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:12:51 -0500, Gary Scott posted:

What is the Fortran forum?

Ron Ford wrote:

Hi

I have just picked up this thread.

I'm the current editor. Here is the acm web address

http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?coll=portal&dl=ACM&idx=J286&linked=1&part=ne...

I'll have a chat with the acm over some of the issues raised.

cheers

ian chivers

On 21 Aug, 18:20, Gary Scott sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:20:19 -0500, Gary Scott posted:

Ron Ford wrote:

In message <11cunli1pa3vf$.dlg@example.invalid>, Ron Ford
writes

It's a pity that Fortran Forum remains so inaccessible. I have tried to
subscribe a few times in the past, but always failed (can't remember
what the ACM site objected to, perhaps not having a US-registered
address or US credit card, or maybe that I wasn't already an ACM
member).

I've also tried to read it via the Athens system which allows UK
academics to access a vast number of scientific publications on-line,
but the ACM chooses to not make this one available that way. I have
access to two university libraries (one a copyright library), but
neither of them takes the paper version.

On Aug 22, 10:31 am, Clive Page wrote:

On Aug 22, 7:34 am, michaelmetc...@compuserve.com wrote:

I am the sort of person who usually has all sorts of trouble with
things like this, but I had no trouble registering for the free
reading of Volume 27, Issue 1 (April 2008) issue. I am sure I could
have read other issues if I had wanted to.

And