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- From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters)
- Subject: Re: FORTRAN 90
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.195803.8763@nrao.edu>
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- Organization: NRAO
- References: <1992Aug13.152636.6635@cfa.harvard.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:58:03 GMT
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- In article 6635@cfa.harvard.edu, orszak@cfa.harvard.edu (Jeff Orszak) writes:
- >I would like to know if the FORTRAN 90 standard is "frozen", and if so
- >what are the best reference to what will be in FORTRAN 90.
-
- Fortran 90 has been approved by ANSI and ISO. The ISO desgination
- is IS1539. The best reference is obviously the standard itself
- but "Fortran 90 Explained" by Metcalf and Reid (Oxford University Press) is
- good if you don't want to wade through the full language definition.
-
- >Also, what
- >progress is being made in make compilers that follow the standard?
- >Because having compilers available will really make it a standard.
-
- There are at least 2 third-party Fortran 90 compilers available for
- UNIX systems. NAG distribute a compiler that uses C as an intermediate
- code while Parasoft distribute a compiler that uses FORTRAN 77 as
- its intermediate code. Both are reasonably priced.
-
- Vendors have generally been lukewarm at best to Fortran 90 but there
- appears to some signs of a change for the better here, at least among
- computer vendors whose lines include multiprocessors or
- multicomputers.
-
- Chris Flatters
- cflatter@nrao.edu
-