Fortran 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 leading experts in the field, two of whom have actively
contributed to Fortran 2018, this is a complete and authoritative
description of Fortran in its latest form. It is intended for new and
existing users of the language, and for all those involved in scientific
and numerical computing. It is suitable as a textbook for teaching and,
with its index, as a handy reference for practitioners.
