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   Modern Fortran explained: incorporating Fortran 2018
Metcalf M., Reid J., Cohen M., Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2018. 522 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-198811-88-6)

First introduced in 1957, FORTRAN was designed to be easier than an assembler language for writing algebraic equations on a computer. In this, FORTRAN was spectacularly successful....

Mar 19 2021
  Classical Fortran: programming for engineering and scientific applications (2nd ed.)
Kupferschmid M., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 2017. 576 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-138116-43-6), Reviews: (2 of 2)

My immediate question was: “What is Classical Fortran?” The author notes that most Fortran programmers use a rather small working Fortran vocabulary, and most of them use the same subset of statements. Based on my o...

Jan 19 2018
  Classical Fortran: programming for engineering and scientific applications (2nd ed.)
Kupferschmid M., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 2017. 576 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-138116-43-6), Reviews: (1 of 2)

Should scientists and engineers learn Fortran? The answer is, “Yes, of course.” Fortran is still the dominant programming language in scientific computing [1,2]. That answer probably means modern Fortran, that is, F...

Nov 27 2017
  Numerical computing with modern Fortran
Hanson R., Hopkins T., SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 2013. 255 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-611973-11-2)

Among all of today’s frequently used programming languages, Fortran is probably the one with the longest history. This observation leads to the question of whether it is still justifiable to work with this language, or whethe...

Jun 24 2014
  Modern Fortran in practice
Markus A., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2012. 272 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-107603-47-9)

To borrow a line from Mark Twain, the report of Fortran’s death has been greatly exaggerated. New standards, and compilers for implementing them, have been appearing regularly over the past two decades, with the latest standa...

Dec 17 2012
  Modern Fortran: style and usage
Clerman N., Spector W., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2011. 352 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-521730-52-5)

For me, the word “Fortran” brings back nostalgic memories of coding sheets, late nights, and really bad coffee. Things have changed a lot in 40 years, and so has Fortran. No longer uppercase only and a fixed layout,...

Jul 6 2012
  Modern Fortran explained (4th ed.)
Metcalf M., Reid J., Cohen M., Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY, 2011. 512 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-199601-41-7)

Reports of Fortran’s death are greatly exaggerated. The language is still used extensively and very successfully for scientific computation on both sequential and parallel architectures. This is perhaps hardly surprising give...

Mar 27 2012
  The rise and fall of high performance Fortran
Kennedy K., Koelbel C., Zima H. Communications of the ACM 54(11): 74-82, 2011.  Type: Article

High-performance Fortran (HPF) encompasses substantial language and compiler constructs for parallel machine architectures. HPF introduced an important software design scheme that augmented portability and programmer productivity. Howe...

Feb 29 2012
  Guide to Fortran 2003 programming
Brainerd W., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2009. 357 pp.  Type: Book (9781848825420)

It’s a good thing that I have a strong heart. In his book, Brainerd insists on using a programming style that makes Fortran look like Python. The first and last lines of each program start in column 1, with everything in betw...

Apr 2 2010
  The Fortran 2003 handbook: the complete syntax, features and procedures
Adams J., Brainerd W., Hendrickson R., Maine R., Martin J., Smith B., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2008. 712 pp.  Type: Book (9781846283789)

What is wrong with Fortran? This is one of the oldest programming languages--the first Fortran compiler was delivered to a customer in 1957, a product of a project led by John Backus in 1954. LISP, another programming language...

Jun 10 2009
 
 
 
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