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Fairly common programming language convention as well. I believe FORTRAN 66 and ALGOL 68 were the first standards widely referred to with a revision year. More

Fairly common programming language convention as well. I believe FORTRAN 66 and ALGOL 68 were the first standards widely referred to with a revision year. More recent examples include Fortran 90 (no more caps!) and C99.

adamnemecek 12y ago
I agree but it seems like newer languages adopted the 1.0, 2.0 versioning scheme so it might throw some people off.
- maxlybbert 12y ago
  Pre-standard C++ had that scheme as well! (well, CFront releases, http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/c_plus_plus#cfront http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/c_plus_plus#cfr... ).
- Havvy 12y ago
  Not just new languages. Java is also versioned from Java 1.0 to 1.1 to 1.2 ... 1.8, with recent versions dropping the "1." because they never will have a true "2.0" release.
- cygx 12y ago
  That's somewhat more common with languages with a reference implementation instead of a specification.