[OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type

[Rustom Mody]

On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 9:40:35 PM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 02/02/2015 08:52, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> > Chris Angelico :
> >
> >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >>> And there are underspecified rules too. What is the plural of octopus? No
> >>> fair looking it up in the dictionary.
> >>
> >> Standard and well-known piece of trivia, and there are several
> >> options. "Octopodes" is one of the most rigorously formal, but
> >> "octopuses" is perfectly acceptable. "Octopi" is technically
> >> incorrect, as the -us ending does not derive from the Latin.
> >
> > Your brain's grammar engine will give you the correct answer. It may not
> > match your English teacher's answer, but the language we are talking
> > about is not standard English but the dialect you have acquired in
> > childhood.
> >
> >
> > Marko
> >
> 
> I'd love to see a formal definition for "standard English".
> 

I'd also love to see a formal definition of 'formal'
Elsewhere someone (Marko I think) used the term 'rigorous'

Ive heard it said that formal is more rigorous than 'rigorous'.
And of course the other way round as well ;-)