Talk:List of ISO standards

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Is this list complete? Highwind 05:23, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

It is meant to be a complete list of all ISO standards for which there is a Wikipedia article. There are more than 15000 ISO standards, new ones beeing added and old ones being withdrawn every few weeks, so there seems little point in simply copying the full ISO Catalogue in here. Markus Kuhn 19:32, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Dispute: This isn't a list of standards at all. Take the case of Fortran (and Fortran is not unique, all ISO standards have the same form), where the article lists:

ISO/IEC 1539-1 Fortran programming language

That is not a Fortran standard. Some of the ISO/IEC Fortran standards are:

  1. ISO/IEC 1539-2-1994. Information Technology - Programming Languages - FORTRAN - Part 2: Varying Length Character Strings.
  2. ISO/IEC 1539-1-1997 (R2003). Information technology — Programming languages — Fortran — Part 1: Base language. Informally known as Fortran 95.
  3. ISO/IEC 1539-2:2000. Information technology -- Programming languages -- Fortran -- Part 2: Varying length character strings.
  4. ISO/IEC 1539-3:1999. Information technology - Programming languages - Fortran - Part 3: Conditional compilation.
  5. ISO/IEC 1539-1:2004. Information technology — Programming languages — Fortran — Part 1: Base language. Informally known as Fortran 2003.
  6. ISO/IEC 1539-1/Cor1:2006. Information technology - Programming languages - Fortran - Part 1: Base language - Corrigendum.

Thus "1539-1" does identify a standard as being a Fortran Language Standard, but does not identify any specific standard. 1539 appears to be the Fortran identification, there are -1, -2, and -3 standards that are all Fortran language.

So:

ISO/IEC 1539         all Fortran standards begin with this
ISO/IEC 1539-1       some Fortran standards begin with this
ISO/IEC 1539-1:2004  this is a specific Fortran standard
ISO/IEC 1539-1:1997  this is another, different, Fortran standard

Suggest researching the ISO naming conventions, find out what just the 1539 part is called. Suppose it is called "category". Then delete the -1 stuff and change the page to be a list ISO Standard categories. BUT first find out what ISO calls the "1539"-like numbers!.

Rwwww 08:57, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Fixed. The ISO Fortran standard is ISO/IEC 1539, which has several parts and of which there exist several editions. We should leave a detailed description of the different parts and editions to the Fortran article. Markus Kuhn 13:33, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
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