# Prospective/desirable characteristics of future fortran standards

**URL:** <https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/prospective-desirable-characteristics-of-future-fortran-standards/3339>\
**Category:** Language enhancement\
**Created:** [April 28, 2022, 8:12am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/prospective-desirable-characteristics-of-future-fortran-standards/3339 "2022-04-28T08:12:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![conradoat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/conradoat/32/1537_2.png) [@conradoat](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/conradoat)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 8:12am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/prospective-desirable-characteristics-of-future-fortran-standards/3339/1 "2022-04-28T08:12:26Z")

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Hi all,

Let me open a thread where we can propose features for fortran. We can also try to think why is fortran perceived as archaic.

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**Author:** ![conradoat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/conradoat/32/1537_2.png) [@conradoat](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/conradoat)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 8:19am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/prospective-desirable-characteristics-of-future-fortran-standards/3339/2 "2022-04-28T08:19:56Z")

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- As rwsmu said, I have the filling that fortran oop capabilities are half baked. I am not a CS myself, but I would like fortran oop to have all the requirements of that in C++

- I would like more intrinsic parallelization.

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**Author:** ![sblionel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/sblionel/32/853_2.png) [@sblionel](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/sblionel)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/prospective-desirable-characteristics-of-future-fortran-standards/3339/3 "2022-04-28T21:40:52Z")

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[j3-fortran/fortran\_proposals: Proposals for the Fortran Standard Committee (github.com)](https://github.com/j3-fortran/fortran_proposals)

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**Author:** ![conradoat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/conradoat/32/1537_2.png) [@conradoat](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/conradoat)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/prospective-desirable-characteristics-of-future-fortran-standards/3339/4 "2022-04-28T22:02:06Z")

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Many thanks, I was unaware.

Best.