FORTRAN then Fortran and now this?
So it leaks out that Sun Microsystems is working on a Fortran replacement. It is supposed to take advantage of all the new multi-core chips being produced, moreso than the parallel extensions to F90/F95.
I don't like the name much, though. I think Sun should just take over the Fortran standards working group and call it Fortran 2010. (It will look pretty different from the Fortran 90 that I wrote my Ph.D. thesis work in; and sadly I can't even get Macsyma any more.)
In the grand tradition of saying “I don’t know what language they’ll be doing <X> in in 30 years, but it’ll be called <old name>”:
I don’t know what language LINPACK will be written in in 2025, but it will be called Fortran.