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Book SynopsisFortran marches on, remaining one of the principal programming languages used in high-performance scientific, numerical, and engineering computing. A series of significant revisions to the standard versions of the language have progressively enhanced its capabilities, and the latest standard - Fortran 2018 - includes many additions and improvements.This edition of Modern Fortran Explained expands on the last. Given the release of updated versions of Fortran compilers, the separate descriptions of Fortran 2003 and Fortran 2008 have been incorporated into the main text, which thereby becomes a unified description of the full Fortran 2008 version of the language. This clearer standard has allowed many deficiencies and irregularities in the earlier language versions to be resolved.Four new chapters describe the additional features of Fortran 2018, with its enhancements to coarrays for parallel programming, interoperability with C, IEEE arithmetic, and various other improvements.Written by
Trade ReviewAn excellent, authoritative and complete reference book on the modern Fortran language, where all its possibilities are collected and any detail of the language can be clearly consulted. * European Mathematical Society *
Well organized and equipped with good examples, the text can be used as both a tutorial and a reference. It describes each of the language elements and explains where FORTRAN 2018 differs from its predecessors. A thorough index is provided; all illustrations are clear and concise. The language used in descriptions and explanations throughout the book is clear and easy to follow. This book is an excellent resource for all practitioners. * F. H. Wild III, University of Rhode Island, CHOICE Connect *
Table of Contents1: Whence Fortran? 2: Language elements 3: Expressions and assignments 4: Control constructs 5: Program units and procedures 6: Allocation of data 7: Array features 8: Specification statements 9: Intrinsic procedures and modules 10: Data transfer 11: Edit descriptors 12: Operations on external files 13: Advanced type parameter features 14: Procedure pointers 15: Object-oriented programming 16: Submodules 17: Coarrays 18: Floating-point exception handling 19: Interoperability with C 20: Fortran 2018 coarray enhancements 21: Fortran 2018 enhancements to interoperability with C 22: Fortran 2018 conformance with ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 23: Minor Fortran 2018 features
