I'm wondering whether the inquiry functions of COMPILER_OPTIONS() and COMPILER_VERSION() introduced in Fortran 2008 as part of ISO_FORTRAN_ENV are low-hanging fruit that Intel can grab quickly and support soon in Intel Fortran. gfortran already supports it.
I think they'll be very useful in our validation work process for all the codes with various versions of compilers; in addition, Intel may also find these very useful in the services it offers toward incident resolution via Intel Premier Support as well as the Fortran forums by allowing and encouraging the customer to make use of these functions. Could it be that the introduction of Intel-specific FOR_IFPORT_VERSION and FOR_IFCORE_VERSION functions in 16.0 beta compiler implies Intel is already thinking along these lines?!
