Fortran 95/2003 Explained

Michael Metcalf worked for many years at CERN, Geneva. He is the author of a range of publications, including Fortran 90/95 Explained (with John Reid) and Effective FORTRAN 77 (Oxford University Press), and FORTRAN Optimization (Academic Press). He is the editor of ACM Fortran Forum.John Reid is well known as a numerical analyst and is a co-author of Direct Methods for Sparse Matrices (OUP). He is the Convener of the ISO Fortran Committee and has played a leading role in the development of many of the features of Fortran 95 and 2003.Malcolm Cohen is a mathematician and the leading compiler writer at NAG in Oxford. He has participated actively in the development of Fortran standards and was a major deisgner of Fortran 2003's object-oriented features.

• Whence Fortran? ; Language elements ; Expressions and assignments ; Control Constructs ; Program units and procedures ; Array features ; Specification statements ; Intrinsic procedures ; Data transfers ; Operations on external files ; Floating-point exception handling ; Allocatable array extensions ; Enhanced module facilities ; Interoperability with C ; Type parameters and procedure pointers ; Object-oriented programing ; Establishing and moving data ; Miscellaneous enhancements ; Input/output enhancements ; Other features ; A. Intrinsic procedures ; B. Obsolescent features ; C. Pointer example ; D. Avoiding compilation cascades ; E. Fortran terms ; F. Solutions to exercises ; Index

Readers who are familiar with Fortran 90/95 Explained by Michael Malcolm and John Reid will be pleased to add Fortran 95/2003 Explained, with the welcome addition of Malcolm Cohen as co-author, to their libraries. As with the previous work, this is a model of clear exposition ... Practitioners will be happy to have this important new book.