Some formal standards are developed by people who are more office politicians than engineers.

The most recent formal standard for the language was published in 1997 and is known as Fortran 95.

However, no formal or informal standard has been reached.

All formal standards are developed with a period of public enquiry and full consultation.

Because they are not subject to the same consultation and consensus requirements as formal standards, the lead time is much shorter.

It may be unfair, however, to judge the study by the formal ethical standards that were only created later.

In fact most formal standards are derived from real world implementations.

The aim of the project is not to legislate formal standards.

Drafts and working documents should not be considered as formal published standards.

Since no formal standard has been developed, slight differences can be found among different writers.