>Intel will release the ivf v11. However, Intel maybe support type-
>bound procedures ... in January of 2009 in their release of ivf 12.
>Intel said that oop programing is not important in fortran which is a
>big mistake(many user swith to c++ only for the oop capicity in c++,
>not other features. It means the users of ivf will lost in the next
>year including some of my frieds). Gfortran is now better then ivf.
Notwithstanding your date correction, we have not made any statements about a
"version 12" of Intel Fortran, including speculation on a release date. Any
speculation you do on that is yours alone.
Type extension is in version 11, which is available as an open beta and will
be released before the end of this year. Procedure pointers are also in
version 11, but type-bound procedures and polymorphism are not. Those last
two are under active development.
We never said "oop programming is not important in Fortran". We are committed
to implementing the full Fortran 2003 language.
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