[OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type

[Mark Lawrence]

On 02/02/2015 16:21, Rustom Mody wrote:
> 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 ;-)
>

I'd like to see anybody define 'a' and 'the' without using 'a' and 
'the'.  Would that be formally rigorous or rigorously formal?

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Mark Lawrence