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Subject: Fortran FAQ
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.answers,news.answers
From: [e-mail] (chiba)
Date: 02 Aug 1994 23:09:01 GMT

Archive-name: fortran-faq
Frequency: mostly monthly
Expires: 15 September 1994

Last-Modified: 94/7/20

Here are some answers to frequently asked questions. The "author", as
is the custom, has appropriated posted responses as seemed apt. I have
tried to leave attributions in, as correctly as possible. To anyone
who has been offended by omission or otherwise, my apologies. I shall
give priority to corrections regarding attribution.

No one takes responsibility for any of this text, neither the employer
of the "author", the "author", friends of the "author", pets of the
"author" nor anyone else.

Your mileage WILL vary.

A good place to look for FAQ's is:
    rtfm.mit.edu, /pub/usenet

If you have comments/suggestions/edit proposals please send them to me
([e-mail]). I do not promise to accept 'em. I
encourage others to make better FAQ lists, so I can retire this one.
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    Questions:

Q0) How should one spell FORTRAN/Fortran?
Q1) Is Fortran 90 a Standard? Where can I get a copy of the Fortran
    90 Standard? How about electronic copies?
Q2) What Fortran 90 translators are available?
Q3) I have heard of fortran "lints"; what are they, and where can
    I get one?
Q4) "Why do people use FORTRAN? C is so much better"
Q5)  Why can't I get an electronic version of the standard?
Q6)  Where can I get "foo" (some random package)
Q7)  Where can I get a free compiler?
Q8)  What is the best compiler for a PC?
Q9)  How does Fortran 90 relate to FORTRAN '77 and what is Fortran 90?
Q10) My compiler is mis-behaving; who enforces the standard?
Q11) What are good books on Fortran?
Q12) Are there pretty printers for FORTRAN? Flowchart generators?
Q13) Why are there aimless debates?
Q14) How do I call f77 from C (and visa versa)
Q15) What constitutes good FORTRAN style?
Q16) For whatever reasons, I want to translate my Fortran into C.
     What tools are available?
Q17) For whatever reasons, I want to translate my existing C code
     into Fortran. What tools are available?
Q18) What is preprocessing, how can it help? How can it hurt?
Q19) How can I convert an existing FORTRAN 77 program to the free form
     source of Fortran 90?
Q20) Who creates these silly standards anyway?
Q21) How can I read my VAX binary data somewhere else?
Q22) My F77 program compiled ok on a <system1>, but gives me heaps of
     syntax errors on a <system2>. What's wrong?
Q23) My F77 program ran ok on a <system1>, but on a <system2> it just gives
     me strange results. What's wrong?
Q24) Is there a WEB for Fortran (and what is WEB anyway)?
Q25) Where can I find coded BLAS (and what are coded BLAS?)
Q26) How common is DO ... END DO?
Q27) Where can I learn more about the history of Fortran?
Q28) Fortran text editors?
Q29) What are ENCODE and DECODE statements, and how are they translated to
     standard Fortran?
Q30) Tell me about Parallel Fortran dialects, what are they, etc.
Q31) Where can I find a f90 tutorial?
Q32) Where can I get mathematical software?
Q33) What is the best Fortran for...
Q34) What classes are available?
Q35) f90.faq from Michel Olagnon
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Q0)  How should one spell FORTRAN/Fortran?

    FORTRAN is generally the preferred spelling for discussions of versions of
    the language prior to the current one ("90"). Fortran is the
    spelling chosen by X3J3 and WG5. In this document a feeble effort
    has been made to capitalize accordingly (e.g. vast existing
    software ... FORTRAN vs. generic Fortran to mean all versions of
    the standard, and specifically the modern dialect, ISO 1539:1991).

From: [e-mail] (Walt Brainerd)
    There was an effort to "standardize" on spelling of programming
    languages just after F77 became a standard.  The rule: if you say
    the letters, it is all caps (APL); if you pronounce it as a word,
    it is not (Cobol, Fortran, Ada).  See, for example the definitive
    article describing Fortran 77 in the Oct 1978 issue of the Comm.
    of the ACM.  The timing was such that FORTRAN got put on the
    standard itself, though many always after that have referred to
    it as Fortran 77.  Of course, there are those who think it is not
    truly Fortran if not written with all caps.

<ed note>

    ISO 1539:1991 and its ANSI counterpart X3.198-1992 consistently
    employ the spelling "Fortran" to refer to the language being
    defined. Reference(s) to the older version employ "small caps"
    for the "ORTRAN" characters.


Q1)  Is it a Standard? Where can I get a copy of the Fortran 90
     Standard?

Fortran "90" is an ISO standard endorsed/adopted by several countries.
It is also a US standard in its own right. ANSI adopted it on 21
September 1992 (X3.198-1992). It was adopted by ISO July 1991 as
ISO/IEC 1539:1991.

<khb> You can't get it from ftp. The various standards bodies get a
substantial fraction of their income from sales of standards
documents. This is unfortunate <khb> Electronic versions are
available, see the note from Walt below.

From: [e-mail] (julian bunn)

         The new Fortran 90 standard has now been formally published
     and is available from the ISO central secretariat or from the
     national member bodies. The price is about $120. Some
     ordering detail follow.  I can supply addresses in other
     countries not mentioned on request (to METCALF@CERNVM).

    The document reference is ISO/IEC 1539 : 1991. There is no ISBN.

    ISO
    1, rue de Varembe
    Case postale 56
    1211 Geneva 20
    Switzerland
    Fax: [phone]   cost 185 swiss francs.

    ANSI
    1430 Broadway
    New York, NY 10018

or

American National Standards Institute
Attn: Customer Service
11 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036

Phone: [phone]:45-4:45 (EST)
Fax: [phone]

    BSI
    2 Park Street
    London W1A 2BS

    DIN
    Burggrafenstrasse 6
    Postfach 1107
    D-1000 Berlin 30

    AFNOR
    Tour Europe
    Cedex 7
    92049 Paris La Defence

SCC
1200-45 O'Connor
Ottawa
Ontario  K1P 6N7

                            Mike Metcalf
                            (metcalf@cernvm)

and from [e-mail]

For those of you who don't read comp.lang.fortran, you might be
interested to know that I (Walt Brainerd) just called Global
Engineering to see if they sell ISO 1539:1991.  They do; the price is
$225.

And

You can obtain copies through:
    Global Engineering Documents
    2805 McGaw Ave.
    Irvine, CA. 92714
    [phone]
    [phone]


New ANSI number
            ANSI X3.198-1992

How about electronic copies?
Return-Path: [e-mail]
Subject: ISO 1539 in electronic form

In accordance with an official agreement with
the International Standards Organization, Unicomp
is now able to distribute electronic versions of
the Fortran 90 standard: "ISO/IEC 1539 : 1991,
Information technology--Programming languages--Fortran".

The money received from this effort will go partly to
fund ISO activities and partly to recover the costs
incurred by Unicomp in preparing and typesetting the
standard document.  The prices are set by ISO.

The document can be obtained in three versions:

1.  An ASCII version suitable for viewing on a
    computer terminal using any kind of editor.
    Cost: USD 125.

2.  A PostScript version with a license allowing
    the purchaser to print n paper copies.
    Cost: USD 125 + 10n.

3.  Complete source in ditroff with macros and
    software to extract and create the annexes.
    The source constitutes a fairly high level
    marked-up document; for example, each program
    beginning and ending is marked and there
    are few low-level typographic commands such
    as size and font changes.  Cost USD 1000.

I am quite enthused especially about version (2).
If you want to have 10 copies for your organization,
and it costs $10 to make a printed copy, then the
cost to make the 10 copies would be $125 + $200,
or just $32.50 per copy, which is a substantial
savings over purchasing paper copies.

Versions (1) and (3) will be accompanied by a
license restricting use to one CPU and prohibiting
copying, except for backup purposes, etc.  The
version (2) license will prohibit distributing
any of the printed copies outside of the purchasing
organization.

If you have special requirements, such as wanting
to distribute a copy with each version of your compiler
or using the source as a part of your documentation,
we can make special arrangements, subject to the
approval of the ISO.  Please advise me of your
requirements and we can work up a proposal together.

ISO and Unicomp think this will provide the oft requested access to
the standard in electronic form. This is the first time this is being
tried, so we hope that organizations will be careful to observe the
rules and encourage the continued availability of this and other
standards in electronic form.

Payment can be made by Visa or MasterCard, or with
a check on a US Bank in US funds.  We <unicomp> will accept
a purchase order only if the amount is $500 or more.

Walter S. Brainerd; Unicomp; phone: [phone]
 email: [e-mail]; fax: [phone];


Q2) What Fortran 90 translators are available?

From: [e-mail] (Matthias Schumann)
From: [e-mail] (Ian MacPhedran)

This is the promised summary of my request for information about
Fortran 90 (f90) compilers. I am sorry for the delay in getting this
posted, but I was away for a week, and still haven't caught up.

I received a large amount of information, including a previous summary.
Rather than parroting the entire list, I have prepared the following
breakdown of the points which interested me.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A more current list can be found (if you have gopher) direct from NAG's own
Bulletin Board thus:

gopher nags2.nag.co.uk 70

Product:  NAGware Fortran 90 Compiler
Descript: Compiles f90 code to C source, or directly to executable
          file under MS-DOS. Therefore requires native C compiler
          as back end on most platforms.
Platform: Apollo DN10000, DECstations, HP 9000, IBM RS/6000, NeXT,
          Intel 386/486 (MSDOS), Sun 3, Sun 4 (SunOS 4.1)
          VAX/VMS forthcoming.
Pricing:  Varies with platform. Academic Pricing available. Site
          licenses are  available
 +------------------------------------------------------------+
 |                    NAGWare F90 Compiler                    |
 +------------------------------------------------------------+
 |          License Fee Options for Initial Computer          |
 +------------------------------------------------------------+
 |        |         Standard        |         Academic        |
 +--------+-------------------------+-------------------------+
 |        |  Perpetual|  Maintenance|  Perpetual|  Maintenance|
 |        |     Fee   |      Fee    |     Fee   |      Fee    |
 +--------+-----------+-------------+-----------+-------------+
 | CLASS 1|      $895 |      $160   |      $537 |       $97   | (MSDOS)
 +--------+-----------+-------------+-------------------------+
 | CLASS 2|    $1,495 |      $270   |      $897 |      $162   | (Low end work-
 +--------+-----------+-------------+-----------+-------------+ stations)
 | CLASS 3|    $1,995 |      $360   |    $1,197 |      $215   |
 +--------+-----------+-------------+-----------+-------------+
 | CLASS 4|    $2,495 |      $450   |    $1,497 |      $270   | (Server class
 +--------+-----------+-------------+-----------+-------------+ computers)
 | CLASS 5|    $3,295 |      $594   |    $1,977 |      $356   |
 +--------+-----------+-------------+-----------+-------------+
 | CLASS 6|    $4,295 |      $774   |    $2,577 |      $464   |
 +--------+-----------+-------------+-----------+-------------+
 | CLASS 7|    $5,295 |      $945   |    $3,177 |      $572   |
 +--------+-----------+-------------+-----------+-------------+
          (US Dollars)
Contact:  Sheila Caswell, Account Manager,
          Numerical Algorithms Group, Inc.

          1400 Opus Place, Suite 200
          Downers Grove, IL, USA
          60515-5702
Phone:    [phone]
Source:   E-mail messages, postings, and paper mailing
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Product:  VAST-90
Descript: Compiles Fortran 90 to Fortran 77 source (requires native
          Fortran 77 compiler).  Also converts Fortran 77 to Fortran 90.
Platform: Sun, IBM RS/6000, HP, DEC, Convex, Cray Research.
Pricing:  Single system: starts at $1250 for Unix workstations; higher
      prices for larger machines.  Academic discount is 10%.  Volume
      discount and site license are also available.  Included:
          VAST-90, f90 driver, f90 library and documentation.
Contact:
Pacific-Sierra Research Corp.               Switchboard:   [phone]
2901 28th Street                            Fax:           [phone]
Santa Monica  CA  90405                     VAST-90 e-mail: [e-mail]
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Product:  PF90 Version 2.0
Descript: Converts f90 programs to f77, then compiles with native
          f77 compiler. Therefore native f77 compiler is required.
Platform: Sun 4, IBM RS/6000, Silicon Graphics, DECstations, Convex,
          Alliant, IBM 3090 (AIX), Cray
Pricing:  $595 any platform, single copy.
      Also available are special site licenses for Universities at
      only $2000 ($3000 outside the US). This license includes
      binaries for all platforms that ParaSoft currently supports.
      Similar license are also available for goverment and
      commercial sites.

Contact:  ParaSoft Corporation
          2500 E. Foothill Blvd
          Pasadena, CA 91107
Phone:    [phone]
E-mail:   [e-mail]
Source:   E-mail messages, and PostScript advertisement
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Product:   PV version 1.1 of Fortran 90 compiler
Descript:  Port of NAG's f90 compiler to MS-DOS, together with Salford
           Software Ltd.
Platform:  Intel 386/486 Computers
Pricing:   $1950.00 (single user, US currency)
Contact:   OTG Systems Inc
Phone:     [phone]
Source:    E-mail message/summary of previous queries
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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I wish to thank the following people for their help, and apologize to any
which I have missed.

psrv![e-mail]
naginc![e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
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Ian MacPhedran, Engineering Computer Centre, University of Saskatchewan.
2B13 Engineering Building, U. of S. Campus, Saskatoon, Sask., CANADA S7N 0W0
[e-mail]  [e-mail]

Walt Brainerd                [e-mail]:

Yes, a Fortran 90 system can be had for $134.

Salford FTN90 is a full PC Fortran 90 implementation based
on the front end developed by the Numerical Algorithms
Group, Ltd.  The Entry Level system requires that all
parts of a program reside in one file (except those that
are brought in with an INCLUDE line).  That file
is compiled and executed without producing a permanent
executable file.

It runs on a 386SX, 386DX, or 486 system with DOS 3.3
or later.

Contact Unicomp for ordering information in North America.
[phone]   4058 (fax)

To find out the price and how to get it outside of North
America, contact Salford Software, Venables Building,
5 Cockcroft Road, Salford, M5 4NT, United Kingdom,
[phone], [phone] (fax).

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Media:      Steve Conway 612/683-7133
Financial:  Bill Gacki 612/683-7372

CRAY RESEARCH ANNOUNCES FIRST COMPLETE FORTRAN 90 IMPLEMENTATION FOR
SUPERCOMPUTERS

Cray Fortran 90-Based Products Will Also Be Marketed For PCs, Workstations,
Servers

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 15, 1993 -- At the Supercomputing 93
conference held here this week, Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR)
announced the Cray Fortran 90 (CF90) Programming Environment,
calling it the first native, complete implementation for supercomputers of
the Fortran 90 standard.  The company said products based on the CF90
Programming Environment will also be marketed for leading personal
computers, workstation products and servers.  "Our goal is for the CF90
Programming Environment to become an industry standard,"  said Cray
....
The CF90 Programming Environment will be available for Cray
Research's complete line of parallel vector supercomputers by year-end
1993.  Support for the company's CRAY T3D massively parallel
processing (MPP) systems is planned for the second release of the
CF90 Programming Environment, due out about a year from now, she
said.
...
Under the company's new CraySoft initiative, Cray-compatible, CF90-
based products for SPARC-based workstations and servers, including
Sun products and the recently announced CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400
series from subsidiary Cray Research Superservers, are slated for
availability by mid-1994, according to CraySoft manager Leary Gates.
Versions will also be developed for other leading workstation products.
...
CraySoft will also oversee Cray Research's previously announced
agreement calling for Absoft Corp., Rochester Hills, Mich., to develop and
market Cray-compatible versions of the CF90 compiler for personal
computers based on Intel 486 and Pentium processors, as well as the
forthcoming series of PowerPC-based Macintoshes, by mid-1994, he
said.
....
CRAY RESEARCH, VISUAL NUMERICS SIGN JOINT TECHNOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION
AGREEMENT FOR FORTRAN 90 SOFTWARE PRODUCTS

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 16, 1993 -- Cray Research, Inc., and Visual Numerics,
Inc., today announced at Supercomputing 93 an agreement to cooperate in the
development and marketing of leading Fortran 90 technologies.
...

DEC Fortran 90 V1.0 for DEC OSF/1 AXP Systems

HIGHLIGHTS

o  New ANSI and ISO compliant Fortran 90 compiler for DEC OSF/1 AXP systems
o  Enhanced DEC Fortran and DEC Fortran 90 debugger support
o  Supports High Performance Fortran syntax for parallel processing

....

Digital's response to the new Fortran 90 standard and the HPF extensions is
a new product called DEC Fortran 90 (SPD 46.41), a member of the DEC Fortran
family of COHESION compilers. DEC Fortran 90 is a full featured optimizing
compiler ....

DEC Fortran 90 provides an expanded array of language features, such as the
FORALL statement, many array operations (including the ability to handle
arrays by using a concise notation), modules, and numeric computation
facilities. Other new features include user defined data types, pointers,
new control constructs, and many new intrinsic procedures.

....
DEC Fortran 90 will be platform independent, though initially available only
on DEC OSF/1 AXP systems. These systems will include Alpha AXP workstations,
worksystem farms, and shared memory systems running the DEC OSF/1 operating
system. It will generate code to run in serial mode on a single processor or
in parallel across multiple processors. It will complement DEC Fortran,
Digital's existing Fortran 77 family of products, and in fact, DEC Fortran
90 and DEC Fortran will share the same Fortran runtime libraries. Programs
can be written in either language and can call programs written in the other
language.
...

AVAILABILITY AND ORDERING

DEC Fortran 90 V1.0 will be available in June 1994 under QL order numbers.
It will also be available as a component of the Digital High Performance
Fortran 90 package, which will be available for a limited time at a reduced
price. The package will contain one each of a DEC Fortran 90 Concurrent Use
license, DEC Fortran 90 documentation, a Digital Parallel Software
Environment (PSE) capacity license, and Digital PSE documentation.

Order No.            Description

                     DEC Fortran 90 V1.0 Licenses and Packages:
QL-2AS*M-3B/3C/3D    DEC Fortran 90 for DEC OSF/1 AXP, 1/5/10 Concurrent Use
                     licenses
QL-2AS*9-AA          DEC Fortran 90 for DEC OSF/1 AXP, Traditional license
                     (all tiers)
QA-2AS*A-GZ          DEC Fortran 90 for DEC OSF/1 AXP, documentation only
QA-054*A-H8          DEC OSF/1 AXP Consolidated CDROM
QB-2W5*A-A*          High Performance Fortran 90 license packages
...
TECHNICAL DATA

DEC Fortran 90 is fully compliant with ANSI X3.198-1992 and ISO/IEC
1539:1991(E). It also supports many, though not all, DEC Fortran extensions
of the Fortran 77 standard.

Support for the High Performance Fortran Specification is complete with two
exceptions. The first release of DEC Fortran 90 will not support dynamic
mapping at other than procedure boundaries (the REALIGN and REDISTRIBUTE
directives, and transcriptive parameter passage), and the nesting of FORALL
and WHERE statements in FORALL statements and constructs.

...
DEC Fortran 90 requires DEC OSF/1 V2.0 or later and requires either the DEC
OSF/1 C Developers' Extension or the DEC OSF/1 Developers' Toolkit to be on
the development system. The Digital Parallel Software Environment requires
DEC OSF/1 V3.0.

TECHNOLOGY LICENSING OF DEC Fortran 90 COMPILER FRONT END

Because of the large software engineering investment required, hardware
vendors may find it difficult to support Fortran 90 on modern RISC and
parallel hardware platforms, while researchers may find it difficult to
develop compiling strategies for it.

To facilitate a common language environment across multiple vendor
platforms, Digital is making available the object and source code of the DEC
Fortran 90 compiler front end, and related technology, to selected compiler
developers, computer hardware vendors (including partners and competitors),
and computer researchers on a case-by-case basis subject to terms of a
negotiated technology licensing agreement.

The DEC Fortran 90 compiler front end analyzes programs written in the DEC
Fortran 90 language, diagnoses and reports errors, and translates programs
into an internal form suitable for additional processing. Its licensing will
provide the following benefits:

o  End users will benefit from the portability of applications and from
   increased standardization across multiple vendors and multiple hardware
   architectures, both serial and parallel.

o  Compiler developers will benefit from the decrease in the software
   engineering required to produce a product compiler for Fortran 90.

o  University computer science compiler researchers will benefit from the
   ability to use a product-quality component in their research, allowing
   them to spend more effort on the direct area of their research.

__________
OSF/1 is a registered trademark of the Open Software Foundation, Inc.
--

From: [e-mail] (Steve Lionel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.unix.osf.osf1
Subject: DEC Fortran 90 for DEC OSF/1 AXP submitted to manufacturing
Date: 10 Jun 1994 17:34:26 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Steve Lionel)


DEC Fortran 90 V1.0 for DEC OSF/1 AXP (Digital's UNIX), the first in a family
of high-quality, high-performance, full language compilers for Fortran 90, was
submitted to manufacturing yesterday, ahead of schedule.  We expect shipments
to begin on June 27.  It can be ordered now.

DEC Fortran 90 also includes support for High Performance Fortran, including
the FORALL statement, directives, "extrinsic" procedures and the HPF library.
With the optional Digital Parallel Software Environment, Fortran 90 applications
can be automatically "decomposed" and run in parallel on DEC OSF/1 AXP
symmetric multiprocessor systems or across a workstation farm.  (The PSE is
planned for release later this summer.)

If you maintain a FAQ or other list of Fortran 90 implementations,
please add DEC Fortran 90.  If you need specific details for your list,
let me know.
--

Steve Lionel                      Mail: [e-mail]
SDT Languages Group               WWW:  http://www.digital.com/info/slionel.html
Digital Equipment Corporation
110 Spit Brook Road, ZKO2-3/N30
Nashua, NH 03062-2698             "Free advice is worth every cent"


Q3) I have heard of fortran "lints" what are they, and where can
   I get one?

   Fortran compilers are not required (and most do not) to protect
   users from themselves, that is to say

     call sub(1)
     ...
     subroutine sub(i)
     i=i+10
     return
     end

   Is non-standard complying but the compiler need not tell you about
   it. Arguably worse, the compiler can produce any result it deems
   fit, up to and including the start of world war III (assuming the
   right optional hardware has been installed).

   Fortran lint programs focus on searching out programming
   errors (or likely errors) and alerting the user.

   There are a wide variety of commercial and pd products. A partial
   list follows:

   IPT FORTRAN lint 1096 East Meadow Circle, Palo Alto, CA 94303, 415/494-7500.

   Forwarn from quibus 719 527 1384.

   QA-FORTRAN from PRL UK 44 372 4621 30 fax [phone]
    and *perhaps*  [phone]

   FORCHECK from Leiden University ND 31 71 276804
"    Announcing: The demo of FORCHECK a Fortran development tool.

    The MS-Windows (or WABI) based demo of FORCHECK, a Fortran development
    tool, is now available via anonymous FTP from simtel as
         pub/msdos/fortran/fckdemo1.zip
    If you are a Fortran programmer it will be a great asset in developing
    portable and reliable code.

    Leiden University
    email: [e-mail]
"
Actually contrary to the posters claim, this isn't a demo, its a
hypertext file. Useful, helpful, but not a demo in the usual sense of
the word ;> <khb>

   FTNCHEK from netlib. One may receive FTNCHEK by mailing to
   [e-mail] the following message:

    send ftnchek from fortran

    And Ajay Shah, [phone], [e-mail]
    You may want to mention f2c followed by an ANSI C compiler as a great
    free fortran lint. I could not have survived writing fortran if it
    were not for f2c.  You need to know some C to deal with the error
    messages, but that's not a bad price to pay.


From: [e-mail] (Ata Etemadi)...
A very kind soul who wishes to remain anonymous sent me the answer below.
....
1.  There is a prettyprinter (called TIDY) available via FTP from simtel20.
    It's in PD2:MSDOS.FORTRAN or some directory with a similar name.
    Capsule review:  does an ok job, sometimes has trouble with
    newer extensions (and even some Fortran 77 standard features).
    Not too bright about making good continuation-line break decisions.
    Free, and available via FTP, so probably the quickest solution.
    Includes source (in Fortran).

2.  Greg Flint ([e-mail]) at Purdue distributes a program
    called CLEAN77.  Pretty good (higher quality than #1 above), also free,
    but must be obtained from Purdue (not available via FTP, not
    redistributable).  Available for assorted systems: PC, UNIX, etc.
    In Fortran, comes with source.

3.  There is an excellent prettyprinter in TOOLPACK - probably has
    more options than any other.  Has trouble with extensions, such
    as long variable names.  Free, comes in source form, in Fortran.
    TOOLPACK as a whole is pretty huge, and requires some work to
    install, but it might be worth it if you stick to pretty much
    standard Fortran.  Available by FTP from Los Alamos (lanl.gov,
    directory pub/toolpack/NAG).  Also distributed commercially for
    a fee by NAG, who may have a new, improved version that is better
    than the free one - I don't really know.

4.  SPAG, sold by OTG Systems (about $1000 for MS-DOS, more for Unix).
    Its main function is to restructure GOTOs into IF-THEN-ELSEs, but
    it also prettyprints.  (I think they renamed this within the past
    year).

5.  FOR-STRUCT, sold by Cobalt Blue.  Also a GOTO restructurer that
    prettyprints.  About $700 for MS-DOS.  Available from most of the
    big PC software dealers (Programmer's Paradise, etc...)
    (They now have a "budget" version that costs about $250 but has
    program-size limitations.)

6.  PRETTY, sold by Quibus Enterprises, Inc.  Restructures GOTOs, also
    indents, relabels, moves Formats, etc. $149 for MS-DOS, $500 for Unix
    workstations.  Call [phone] for more info.


From: "John D. McCalpin" <[e-mail]>
Not too many people use it, but you might want to add TOOLPACK to
the list of FORTRAN "lint" packages.  Here is the blurb that I
send to people who are interested:

======================================================================
TOOLPACK is a large set of utilities written in FORTRAN to do FORTRAN
code analysis and transformation.

TOOLPACK begins by actually parsing the program with a fully FORTRAN-
compliant parser and then does all the code transformations on the
parse and comment trees.

This means that you cannot confuse TOOLPACK by silly FORTRAN-isms that
can easily overwhelm more naive utilities (such as ftnchek).  For
example, TOOLPACK correctly handles statements such as:

      D O U B L E  P R E C I S I O N   A(100,100)
      doubleprecision fred

      DO I = 1.2
      READ(I,J) = 10.


The usual interface to TOOLPACK is a set of 'csh' scripts that run the
various TOOLPACK utilities to do specific tasks.

The ones you will find most useful are: pol, polx, apt, dapt, decs,
getlst, and discard.   These are the prettyprinter, precision converter,
declaration standardizer, and some necessary utilities.  See below for
more details.

By aware that TOOLPACK is *very* rigorous about the FORTRAN-77
standard.  You may or may not consider this an advantage.

The scripts are described by the 'scripts' script, which delivers the
following:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
In the Toolpack script summaries below, the section numbers refer to
the Unix environment Users' Guide where more detailed information can
be found.  To obtain on-line information about a script's usage, type
its name without any arguments.

FORTRAN Analysis Facilities

  getlst  Produce a listing showing statement and token numbers. Report
          lexical scanning warnings and errors. (3.1.1)

  syn     Report errors and warnings detected by lexical scanning, parsing,
          and examining a set of symbol attributes. (3.1.2)

  sem     Report errors and warnings detected by lexical scanning, parsing,
          and examining an extended set of symbol attributes. (3.1.3)

  pfort   Report errors and warnings detected by lexical scanning, parsing,
          examining an extended set of symbol attributes, checking for unsafe
          references, and checking conformance to a portable subset of
          FORTRAN. (3.1.4)

  statdoc In a user-supplied report template, place information derived from
          static analysis to assist in documenting the program.  Examples of
          information the user may request are COMMON block usage, symbol
          attributes, and a graph of subprogram calls. (3.1.5)

  inst    Instrument a FORTRAN program so that the instrumented program, when
          executed, produces information about program execution. (3.2.1)

  rundoc  Execute a program instrumented by inst and, in a user-supplied
          report template, place information derived from dynamic analysis
          to assist in documenting the program.  For example, the user may
          determine the frequency of execution of program segments. (3.2.2)

FORTRAN Transformation Facilities

  pol     Format a FORTRAN program under control of user-supplied options
          in a Polish option file. (4.1.1)

  polx    Construct a Polish option file via a menu-driven editor. (4.1.2)

  decs    Rebuild the declarative part of a FORTRAN program. (4.2.1)

  apt     Transform a single-precision version of a FORTRAN program to
          double precision or vice versa. (4.3.1)

  dapt    Convert precision and rebuild the declarations, combining the
          functions of apt and decs. (4.3.2)

  cname   Change the names in a FORTRAN program that satisfy conditions
          derived from information in either the lexical token stream or
          the symbol table or both. (4.4.1)

  lname   Transform a FORTRAN program containing long names to a program
          with standard names. (4.4.2)

  stf     Rebuild the flow of control in a FORTRAN program to standardized
          form. (4.5.1)

  ucs     Transform nests of DO loops matching certain paradigms so that
          the transformed code executes more efficiently on vector machines.
          (4.6.1)

Miscellaneous Facilities

  fdiff   Compare two FORTRAN programs at the lexical token level. (5.1.1)

  dac     Compare two data files, neglecting certain formatting differences
          and numerical differences smaller than a given tolerance. (5.1.2)

  vcon    Create, edit, and retrieve versions of a file contained in a
          version file. (5.2.1)

  discard Remove unneeded files created by the above scripts. (5.3.1)

  scripts Print this summary of the scripts. (5.4.1)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

TOOLPACK can be obtained by anonymous ftp from perelandra.cms.udel.edu
in the directory pub/Lang/Toolpack/.
The UNIX version is in the file toolpack.tar.Z
Serious hackers will want the versions in the Distrib directory.

The package is known to compile on Silicon Graphics and Sun machines,
though the Makefile is reasonably braindamaged.

You will need about 16 MB for the stripped executables on an SGI machine.
Figure on double that for compiling the package.....

Have fun!
--
John D. McCalpin            [e-mail]
Assistant Professor            [e-mail]
College of Marine Studies, U. Del.    [e-mail]

Aside from code reformatting, there is the other meaning of pretty
printing ...

From: James F Hall <[e-mail]>
....

Second, on Q12 in the faq, about available pretty printers for
Fortran...  Some time ago, I found a pretty printer called "lgrind",
which converted a Fortran program into LaTeX/TeX.  This text could be
included in a larger LaTeX/TeX file, or processed immediately.  I
chose not to use this because I found it was not the best use of my
quota, but others may find it useful.

Lgrind may be found using an archie search:
    archie lgrind
;;;;
Q4) "Why do people use FORTRAN?, C is so much better"

   One should avoid such pointless arguments .... if you feel this
   way, don't subscribe to comp.lang.fortran.

   This sort of question always triggers off a protracted discussion,
   the highlights of which are typically:

       a) FORTRAN and C have different semantics. A FORTRAN optimizer
      knows more about aliasing, function interactions, and I/O. A
      C optimizer has to infer or compute such information. C
      bigots typically have neither written such optimizers nor
      worked with folks who do it for a living, and are prone to
      dismiss such arguments as being petty and neolithic.

      FORTRAN programmers are often a bit more in touch with high
      performance computing, and are unwilling to bet that heavily
      on compiler wizardry.

<enter Peter van der Linden author of "Expert C Programming" >

          In addition, ANSI C section 2.1.2.3 on Program Execution
      makes it clear that associative and commutative regrouping
      of operands is only allowed if it produces the same result
      as it would if the regrouping had not been done.  Where it
      makes a difference is on hardware that produces an exception
      on arithmetic overflow, and the regrouping either causes or
      avoids an exception, that otherwise would not/would take
      place.  In ANSI C

      a = a + 32760 + b   MUST be evaluated as  (a + 32760) + b
                                        NOT as   a +(32760  + b)
                                 UNLESS the overflow exception will be
      the same in either case.

          Fortran is somewhat less tightly-buttoned about this, and
      allows the compiler-writer to regroup the expression and
      evaluate it in either order. Thus, in Fortran, whether you
      get an exception or not depends on the compiler, the level
      of optimization, and the hardware.  In ANSI C, itonly
      depends on the hardware.


      Of course, compiler options, vendor extensions and the like
      sometimes narrow the difference. Also, some Fortran
      compilers do not take advantage of all of these features of
      the language, thus narrowing the gap in the other direction.

      On any given code, on any given system, all bets are off.

      b)  There is a vast body of existing FORTRAN code (much of which
      is publically available and of high quality). Numerical
      codes are particularly difficult to "vet", scientific
      establishments usually do not have large otherwise idle
      programming staffs, etc.  so massive recoding into any new
      language is typically resisted quite strongly.

      c)  Fortran tends to meet some of the needs of scientists
      better.  Most notably, it has built in support for:
        - variable dimension array arguments in subroutines
        - a compiler-supported infix exponentiation operator which
          is generic with respect to both precision and type,
          *and* which is generally handled very efficiently  or
          the commonly occuring special case floating-point**small-integer
        - complex arithmetic
        - generic-precision intrinsic functions

      d)  Retraining staff is quite expensive.

      e)  It is sometimes argued that:
- Jonathan Thornburg <also responsible for misc. other fixups>
    Fortran tends to be easier for non-experts to learn
    than C, because its "mental model of the computer" is
    much simpler.  For example, in Fortran the programmer
    can generally avoid learning about pointers and memory
    addresses, while these are essential in C.  More generally,
    in Fortran the difference between (C notation) x, &x,
    and often even *x is basically hidden, while in C it's
    exposed.  For non-experts this makes Fortran a considerably
    simpler language.

    Because of this relative simplicity, for simple programming
    tasks which fall within its domain, (say writing a simple
    least-squares fitting routine), Fortran generally requires
    much less computer science knowledge of the programmer than
    C does, and is thus much easier to use.


Q5)  Why can't I get an electronic version of the standard?

    Someday, perhaps you can. However, at the moment the various
    standards bodies finance some fraction of their work via sales of
    standards documents. ISO and ANSI have both claimed copyright to
    the finished standard, so those who would make and distribute
    copies should be forewarned.

    It should be noted that various people are working to correct
    this; but it is unlikely to ever become free.

Q6) Where can I get "foo" (some random package)

Q6) Where can I get "foo" (some random package)
        contributed by:
                Marc R. Roussel
                                [e-mail]

    Use archie. archie is an online database of what is available and
    where on the "net". Archie can be used either via telnet or by
    mail.

    For information about archie send

    mail [e-mail]
    subject: help

    And you will get back copious directions on how to use archie.  If
    you prefer interactive experimentation, telnet to
    archie.rutgers.edu and log in as archie.  No password will be
    required.  The first thing you will be shown is a list of other
    archie servers.  If one of these servers is geographically much
    closer to you than Rutgers, NJ, please disconnect (by typing 'quit')
    and use that one.  To save you this step, here is the latest list of
    archie sites:

    archie.rutgers.edu     128.6.18.15     (Rutgers University)
    archie.unl.edu     129.93.1.14     (University of Nebraska in Lincoln)
    archie.sura.net     128.167.254.179 (SURAnet archie server)
    archie.ans.net     147.225.1.2     (ANS archie server)
    archie.au         139.130.4.6     (Australian server)
    archie.funet.fi     128.214.6.100     (European server in Finland)
    archie.doc.ic.ac.uk  146.169.11.3     (UK/England server)
    archie.cs.huji.ac.il 132.65.6.15     (Israel server)
    archie.wide.ad.jp     133.4.3.6     (Japanese server)

    I believe that all of these servers run the mail server as well as
    the telnet and archie server software.  (The archie server is a
    third way to use archie.  It's probably the best way, but it
    requires that you install software.)

    Once you logged into an archie server, you will want to make
    sure that all the information you will retrieve will be mailed to
    you.  Type

    set mailto [e-mail]

    where, of course, you will substitute your own email address for the
    made-up one shown above.  You are now ready to search the database.
    If at any time you want to know what options are available to you,
    type help.  To search for a program or file, type

    prog foo

    where foo is the name of the program or file required.  Once your
    search is done, type 'mail' to have the output sent to you.  (The
    output will almost always be several pages long.)  Then type 'quit' to
    exit.

Q7)  Where can I get a free compiler?

    One such is f2c.

From: [e-mail] (Mark Maimone)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Fortran to C translator
Keywords: fortran, C, translator, f2c
Date: 13 Sep 90 01:43:30 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI


    Since there have been several requests for a Fortran to C translator
in the past week, I'm reposting the announcement about f2c.  The short
answer is you can get f2c by anonymous-ftp from research.att.com in
directory dist/f2c.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Source for f2c, a Fortran 77 to C translator jointly developed by
folks from Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Carnegie Mellon, is now freely
available.

    F2c was derived from the original UNIX operating system's f77(1),
and the generated C follows f77's calling conventions; on some machines, the
resulting object files are interchangeable with (and behave
indistinguishably from) objects compiled by f77.  The main "advantage" of
f2c is that it converts ANSI standard Fortran 77 into C without manual
intervention, at least when invoked by a suitable script or makefile (that
may need to exercise an f2c option to ensure that COMMON blocks are defined
just once).  The main "problems" are that f2c does no code restructuring
(e.g., gotos are preserved) and that Fortran I/O gets converted into a bunch
of calls; thus the translated C code doesn't look too pretty, and in general
one would need to maintain the Fortran rather than its translation into C.
[F2c is not meant to displace the services of commercial vendors whose
business is to convert Fortran into maintainable C.]

    There is a plethora of options, many of which exist to support
different compilation environments for the translated C (e.g., ANSI C or C++
compatibility, different type sizes, separate files for COMMON blocks to
appease "smart" linkers).  So far f2c (and f2c-generated source) has
compiled successfully on many machines:  Sun, Vax, IBMRT, Apollo, SGI, MIPS,
and Cray to name a few.

    F2c has been under test by the net community for over a year
and has been verified on the NBS tests, several large math libraries,
floating point tests, even code for laying cable on the ocean floor!

    To find out about f2c, send the following E-mail message to netlib
([e-mail] or research!netlib):

    send index from f2c

Your message will be answered automatically (by a program -- see CACM vol.
30 #5 (May, 1987), pp. 403-407).  You will receive a reply explaining how to
automatically acquire f2c source (about 600K), f2c library source (130K),
and supporting info (man page, etc).  Or you can anonymous-FTP to
research.att.com and look in directory dist/f2c at these files:

    all.Z -- 250K compressed shar file for f2c
    f2c.ps.Z -- 24 page tech report describing f2c
    index -- general info about files
    libf77.Z, libi77.Z -- compressed shar files for libraries

****************************** DISCLAIMER ******************************
         Careful! Anything free comes with no guarantee.
************************************************************************

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Mark Maimone                phone: (412) 268 - 7698
Carnegie Mellon Computer Science    email: [e-mail]
                           cmcspt![e-mail]

Notes: f2c accepts only fairly vanilla FORTRAN; vendor supplied f77's
       usually produce better quality code, and accept a wider variety
       of codes.

The FSF is working on a f77 front end to be integrated with the gcc back end.

"A mailing list exists for those interested in the Fortran front end for
GCC.  To subscribe, ask: `[e-mail]'.
Or try "finger -l [e-mail]"

There is no FSF project to do a f90 front end. The author of the gf77
front end is willing, if anyone will fund it.

Mike Craymer
Geodetic Survey of Canada
[e-mail]
___________________________________________________________________

Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.compilers
From: [e-mail] (Wojciech Galazka)
Subject: Free FORTRAN compilers - summary
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 12:12:01 GMT

Here's a summary of postings sent in reply to my letter sent to
comp.lang.fortran about availability of a free FORTRAN compiler.
Thanks to all who responded to me.
---------------------------------------------
From: Greg Lindahl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Public Domain/Shareware version of Fortran
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran

f2c is quite free.
---------------------------------------------
From: [e-mail] (MUFTI)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: re: CHEAP MSDOS fortran compiler: was: nocommercial users have to
pay nothing for bcf77
Organization: User Helpdesk Comp. Cent. (RUS) U of Stuttgart, FRG

Someone asked for a cheap MSDOS fortran compiler for students.
The bcf77 by andreas koesterli has a student version, which costs nothing.
The student version may not be used in any comercial enviroment and
problems.
Its a version that write a none standart object format and requires 640KB.
If all input is in UPPERCASE, it supports full fortran 77 standart.


The site is ftp.uni-stuttgart.de, the compiler can be found
in /pub/systems/pc/lang/fortran/compiler/bcf77.zip.
It can be access via [e-mail] for those of You
without ftp.

PI at the User Help Desk Comp.Center U of Stuttgart, FRG      26 years to go !
EMail: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]                (aka Kurt Jaeger)
-------------------------------------------------
From: [e-mail] (Troy Barbee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: re: CHEAP MSDOS fortran compiler: was: nocommercial users have to
pay nothing for bcf77

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Charles
F Randall) writes:
|> Note that the .txt file for this NOT in English:
|>
|> BC-FORTRAN77 Version.b besteht aus Compiler, Linker,
|> Modulbibliothek und einem residenten Laufzeitsystem, das
|> u.a. einen einfachen Debugger enthaelt. Diese Version
|> laeuft auf einem MS-DOS Rechner mit 640kB RAM. Eine
|> Festplatte ist nicht erforderlich. Hiermit soll in
|> einfacher Weise ein Compiler fuer Programmierkurse
|> zur Verfuegung stehen. Dem kommt entgegen, dass
|> entsprechende Compiler fuer ATARI ST und AMIGA existieren.
|>
|> Anfragen nach Zusendung einer anderen oder neueren Version
|> werde ich nur noch beantworten, wenn DM 20.- (Schein oder
|> Scheck) Aufwandsentschaedigung (Diskette, Umschlag, Porto
|> und Zeit) beigefuegt sind. Ich versende ausschliesslich
|> 3 1/2 Zoll Disketten.
|>
|> Anybody willing to translate?

Here's a quick and dirty translation (i.e., I didn't look in
my dictionary, so the sentences in [] are just rough translations)

BC-FORTRAN77 Version b consists of a compiler, linker, module
library, and a resident runtime system that contains (among
other things) a simple debugger. This version runs on a MS-DOS
computer with 640KB RAM.  A hard disk is not required.
[The intent is to provide a compiler for programming courses
in a simple manner. Similar compilers exist for the ATARI ST and the
AMIGA.]

Requests for another or a newer version will only be answered
if they are accompanied by DM 20.- (check or cash) to defray costs
(diskette, envelope, postage, and time). I can only send 3 1/2 inch
diskettes.

---------------------------------------------------------
From: [e-mail] (Pat Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: free fortran for PC running MSDOS

>From Public software List (PsL), Houston, TX:  (their number 3940)

"BC-FORTRAN 1.3b, is a FORTRAN compiler from Germany.  The
documentation is in German.  Sample source code is included.  The compiler
generates big, inefficient EXE programs and is offered only because there
are
no other pd/shareware FORTRAN compilers available.  700K of disk space is
required."

--------------------------------------------------------------
From: [e-mail] (Pat Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: BC Fortran -- PD/Share Fort Compiler -- English Docs Available

Can you figure this out?  Here's info about translated docs for that
PD/SH Fort compiler I mentioned.
*******************************************
From: "[e-mail]"  3-FEB-1992 00:53:12.08
Subj: BC F77 documentation available
From: PVT Joe Snuffy <[e-mail]>

  I am sort of asking for your help here.  I translated the documentation
for
BC-F77 and am willing to make it available to people.  However, my
newsreader
will not let me post with distribution wider than our local site (or at
least,
that appears to be what is going on).  Could you do me a favor and post the
text that follows?  You might also tell those others who write to you that
this
translation is available.

Chris Doyle   [e-mail]

Stuff to be posted starts below this line.  Adjust header/newsgroup/etc as
appropriate.  Thanks!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: free fortran for DOS PC/BCF77
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1992 00:33:21 GMT

For those people who FTP this thing and want to be able to read the
documentation, I have translated the README file into English and will
let you have a copy of the translation upon request.  Translation is
about 400 lines long.

BCF77 (FORTRAN 77 compiler, written by Andre Koestli) distribution.
This compiler/linker/run-time module and supporting files are available
via anonymous FTP from "rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de" as the file
"/soft/pc/lang/fortran/compiler/bcf77.zip".

----------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
From: [e-mail] (John Burton)
Subject: Re: BC Fortran -- PD/Share Fort Compiler -- English Docs Available

There is another [e-mail] distributes f2c
which is a translator for converting FORTRAN 77 code into C (ANSI C

or K&R C), or C++ (I think). There is a version of f2c that is ported
to MSDOS machines.
How fast & efficient the code is now depends on how good your C
compiler is (I hear MSC and BC++ do a pretty good job of optimization)...

f2c is available via anonymous ftp...ftp to research.att.com & login as
netlib.

-----------------------------------------------------
From: [e-mail] (Lou Glassy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: BC Fortran -- PD/Share Fort Compiler -- English Docs Available

In article <[e-mail]>
                     [e-mail] (Pat Hayes) writes:
[comments about an english translation of the BCF77 readme.doc]
Has anyone attempted translating the error messages inside the compiler?
(This involves editing the binary.)
from the translation a friend provided for me:
"...the error messages are self-explanatory, except for the following:
  [a page or two of error messages] ..."
the self-explanatory error messages (not listed in the readme.doc)
comprise the bulk of the error messages, i think.

--------------------------------------------------------
>From [e-mail] Wed Jan 26 12:27:49 1994
Subject: Re: Public Domain/Shareware version of Fortran

BCF is available by ftp from many places.   For instance, it is in the
directory fortran on simtel20.    I did `archie bcf' and found it is also
in directory  /usenet/comp.archives/languages/fortran on src.doc.ic.ac.uk.

On simtel20 it is file:  bcf7713b.zip
You may find it has the same name elsewhere.

There have been many complaints about bcf - but it is free.   I recommend
Lahey's Personal Fortran PF77L to those who have been disappointed with
bcf.   I believe it costs US$99.

Alan Miller, Quality Improvement Project
CSIRO Division of Mathematics & Statistics, Melbourne, Australia
Phone: [phone]   Fax: [phone]  E-mail: [e-mail]
Mail: CSIRO DMS, Private Bag 10, Rosebank MDC, Clayton, Vic. 3169,
Australia

                Wojciech Galazka
--
Wojciech Galazka <[e-mail]>
   Computer Center
 Chemistry Department,  University of Warsaw
 Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland

Q8)  What is the best compiler for a PC?

    There are many products, some are quite good. Few are free.
    f2c and gcc can be had for the PC environment. Popular ones are:

    Lahey (very fast compilation; excellent reputation for support)
    Watcom (touted for good optimization)
    MicroWay (support for odd floating point units)
    LPI  (multi-platform support)
    MicroSoft (various good hooks into windows and such)
    Absoft (multi-platform support)

   It is beyond the scope of a faq to provide a commercial endorsement.

Q9) How does Fortran 90 relate to FORTRAN '77?

    With a few minor exceptions, Fortran 90 is a superset
    of X3.9-1978 FORTRAN.

But this does not mean that all "77" codes will port sans changes.
Many (if not most) programmers employed constructs beyond the '77
standard, or rely on unspecified behavior (say, assuming that an OPEN
of an existing file will position the file pointer to just past the
last record already written) which has changed (that is to say, has
become specified).

This leads to the obvious question, what is new in Fortran 90?

A complete answer would require considerable text. Some of the most
obvious additions are:

    1) array notation (operators, etc.)
    2) dynamic memory allocation
    3) derived types and operator overloading
    4) keyword argument passing, INTENT (in, out, inout)
    5) modules
    6) modern control structures
    7) free format source code form
    8) other stuff

While it is always tricky to characterize the motives of a large group
of people, I <khb> am inclined to try as follows:

   '90 incorporates two sets of improvements: (1) relatively minor
   fixups that *could* have been done earlier (2) relatively major
   changes to enable better software engineering practices.

Sometimes a "minor" fixup has major effect, such as addition of free
form source form combined with canonization of the MIL-STD 1753
INCLUDE.

I further go off on a limb and assert that it was the goal of the
*committee* to evolve Fortran in a fashion to enable it to continue to
be the premier language for scientific computation.


Q10) My compiler is mis-behaving; who enforces the standard?

    ANSI and ISO standards do not usually have a particular enforcement
    mechanism. Local bodies sometimes do.

    However, it should be borne in mind that if *your* source code is
    not standard compliant there is *NO* obligation for a FORTRAN ('77
    and before) compiler to do  *ANYTHING* in particular. In Fortran (90)
    the text in "constraints" must be tested and a warning produced
    (compiler option can be used to evade this, of course).

    Some (notably Guy Steele, with respect to another standard) have
    noted that when non-standard complying code is encountered, a
    compiler may do *ANYTHING* including initation of Global Warfare.
    Keep this in mind.

    When you do find a bona fide compiler bug, you are generally best
    served by reporting it to the *vendor*. If you neglect to tell the
    vendor, how can you complain about it not being fixed?

    When reporting a *suspected* bug be sure to be quite specific
    about the computer system, operating system rev level (patches
    applied if known) and *compiler*version* (and patches thereof).
    It is very hard for people to read your mind; but they will try.
    The attempts are often entertaining, sometimes helpful, but always
    an inefficient use of people-time and net-bandwidth.

    Also note that it is generally helpful if you cut down the example
    to the smallest size you can. Vendors are developers too; the
    tendency is invest time/money where one can get the biggest bang
    for the buck.


Q11) What are good books on Fortran?

    Don't know if they are good. Inclusion in the list is not
    endorsement.  Have misplaced name of the compiler of the
    original list <sorry>


Author                         Title                                     Year
Morgan/Schonfelder           Programming in Fortran 90          1993
Kerrigan               Migrating to Fortran 90                  1993
Kruger                   Efficient Fortran Programming          1990
Mojena/Ageloff                 FORTRAN 77                                 1990
Metcalf/Reid                   FORTRAN 90 EXPLAINED                       1990
Boyle                          FORTRAN 77 PDQ                             1989
Bezner                         FORTRAN 77                                 1989
Tremblay                       PROGRAMMING IN FORTRAN 77                  1988
Salmon                         ... ENGINEERS & SCIENTISTS WITH FORTRAN 77 1988
Nyhoff/Leestma                 FORTRAN 77 FOR ENGINEERS & SCIENTISTS      1988
McCracken/Salmon               ... ENGINEERS & SCIENTISTS WITH FORTRAN 77 1988
Davis/Hoffman                  FORTRAN 77: A STRUCTURED DISCIPLINED STYLE 1988
Barnard/Skillicorn             FORTRAN 77 FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS    1988
Mashaw                         PROGRAMMING STRUCTURED FORTRAN 77          1987
Cole                           FORTRAN 77: A STRUCTURED ... APPROACH      1987
Boillot                        UNDERSTANDING FORTRAN-77                   1987
Starkey/Ross                   FUNDAMENTAL PROGRAMMING WITH FORTRAN 77    1986
Rouse/Bugnitz                  INTRODUCTION TO FORTRAN 77                 1986
Ratzer                         FORTRAN 77 COURSE                          1986
Page                           FORTRAN 77 FOR HUMANS                      1986
Lehman                       ... SOCIAL SCIENCES: ALGORITHMS & FORTRAN 77 1986
Smith                          FORTRAN 77: A PROBLEM-SOLVING APPROACH     1985
Shelly                         FORTRAN 77: AN INTRODUCTION                1985
Nickerson                      FUNDAMENTALS OF FORTRAN 77 PROGRAMMING     1985
Metcalf                        EFFECTIVE FORTRAN 77                       1985
McKeown                        STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING USING FORTRAN 77    1985
Hume                           FORTRAN 77 FOR SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS      1985
Dillman                        PROBLEM SOLVING WITH FORTRAN 77            1985
Brainerd                       FORTRAN 77 FUNDAMENTALS AND STYLE          1985
Borse                          FORTRAN 77 & NUMERICAL METHODS FOR ENGINEERS1985
Adman                          FORTRAN 77 SOLUTIONS NON-SCIENTIFIC PROBS. 1985
SSI, Inc. Staff                FORTRAN 77 REFERENCE                       1984
Etter                          PROBLEM SOLVING WITH STRUCTURED FORTRAN 77 1984
Etter                          PROBLEM SOLVING USING FORTRAN 77            ?
Dyck                           FORTRAN 77: A STRUCTURED APPROACH ...      1984
Chivers/Clark                  FORTRAN 77: A HANDS ON APPROACH            1984
Adman                          FORTRAN 77 FOR NON-SCIENTISTS              1984
Willamson/Levesque           * A GUIDEBOOK TO FORTRAN ON SUPERCOMPUTER   1989
Rule                           FORTRAN 77: A PRACTICAL APPROACH          1983
Rouse/Bugnitz                  PROGRAMMING THE IBM PC: FORTRAN 77        1983
Nyhoff/Leestma                 PROBLEM SOLVING WITH FORTRAN 77           1983
Marateck                       FORTRAN 77                                1983
Lehmnkuhl                      FORTRAN 77                                1983
Law                            ANSI FORTRAN 77: INTRO. TO SOFTWARE DESIGN 1983
Holoien/Behforooz              ... STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING WITH FORTRAN 77 1983
Grout                        FUNDAMENTAL ... PROGRAMMING USING FORTRAN 77 1983
Fleming/Redish                 THE U. S. MC MASTER GLOSSARY OF FORTRAN-77  1983
Cole                           ANSI FORTRAN IV WITH FORTRAN 77 EXTENSIONS  1983
Wu                             ANSI FORTRAN IV & 77 AND BUSINESS PROGRAMS  1982
Pollack                        STRUCTURED FORTRAN 77 PROGRAMMING           1982
Katzan                         FORTRAN 77                                  1982
Gibson/Young                  INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING USING FORTRAN 77 1982
Ellis                         STRUCTURED APPROACH FORTRAN 77 PROGRAMMING   1982
Durgin                        FORTRAN 77                                   1982
Nanney                        A PROBLEM-SOLVING APPROACH USING FORTRAN 77  1981
Merchant                      FORTRAN 77: LANGUAGE AND STYLE               1981
Khailany                      BUSINESS PROGRAMMING FORTRAN IV/ANSI FORTRAN 1981
Ashcroft                      PROGRAMMING WITH FORTRAN 77                  1981
Wagener                        FORTRAN 77                                    ?
Wagener                       PRINCIPLES OF FORTRAN 77 PROGRAMMING         1980
Meissner/Organick             FORTRAN 77 FEATURING STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING  1980
Hume/Holt                     PROGRAMMING FORTRAN 77                       1979
Balfour                       PROGRAMMING IN STANDARD FORTRAN 77           1979
Brainerd               Programmer's guide to Fortran 90            1990
Adams et al                   Fortran 90 Handbook                         1991
Counihan                      Fortran 90                                  1991
O'Reilly&Assoc              Unix for FORTRAN Programmers                1990

From: [e-mail] (D Muxworthy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Fortran 90 text books (was: Fortran 8x Information sought)
Date: 16 Jul 93 12:10:32 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Tomonobu Kumazawa) writes:
>
>   I would appreciate any information (books, information materials,
> contacts of software publishers etc.) related to FORTRAN 8x.

Here is a bibliography of Fortran 90 text books.  Any information on additions
would be welcome, as would the ISBN number of Schobert's book.

1.   Fortran 90 - Counihan, Pitman, 1991, ISBN 0-273-03073-6.
2.   Fortran 90; Approche par la Pratique - Lignelet, Se'rie
     Informatique E'ditions, Menton, 1993, ISBN 2-090615-01-4.
3.   Fortran 90: eine informelle Einfu"hrung - Heisterkamp,
     BI-Wissenschaftsverlag, 1991, ISBN 3-411153-21-0.
4.   Fortran 90 Explained - Metcalf and Reid, Oxford University
     Press, 1992, ISBN 0-19-853772-7 (also available in French,
     Japanese [from Oct 1993] and Russian [Q4, 1993] translation).
5.   Fortran 90 Handbook - Adams, Brainerd, Martin, Smith and
     Wagener, McGraw-Hill, 1992, ISBN 0-07-000406-4.
6.   Fortran 90; Initiation a` partir du Fortran 77 - Aberti,
     Se'rie Informatique E'ditions, Menton, 1992, ISBN 2-090615-00-6.
7.   Fortran 90 Referenz-Handbuch: der neue Fortran-Standard -
     Gehrke, Carl Hansen Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-446163-21-2.
8.   Programmer's Guide to Fortran 90 - Brainerd, Goldberg and
     Adams, McGraw-Hill, 1990, ISBN 0-07-000248-7.
9.   Programmieren in Fortran - Langer, Springer Verlag, 1993,
     ISBN 0-387-82446-4.
10.  Programmierung in Fortran 90 - Schobert, Oldenburg, 1991.
11.  Programming in Fortran 90 - Morgan and Schonfelder,
     Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1993, ISBN 0-632028-38-6.
12.  Software Entwicklung in Fortran 90 - U"berhuber and Meditz,
     Springer Verlag, 1993, ISBN 0-387-82450-2.

David Muxworthy
Edinburgh University



Q12) Are there pretty printers for FORTRAN? Flowchart generators?

    Yes.

    One such is SPAG:  OTG <usa> voice 717 222 9100  fax   [phone]
    Authors are

           Polyhedron Software Ltd
           Magdalen House
           98 Abingdon Road
           Standlake
           Witney
           Oxon OX8 7RN

           Tel [phone]

     part of their plusFORT product.


    Another is Fortran development Tools from  Quibus 714 527 1384

    Also FOR_STRUCT from cobalt-blue. 404 518 1116 fax [phone]

    These more than pretty print, they optionally restructure your
    code (duplicating code as needed to tidy up strange GOTO lists,
    turning them into IF-THEN chains, and etc.).


From: [e-mail] (Dave Appel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: code beautifier wanted
Date: 4 Mar 92 21:30:25 GMT
Organization: GRAFTED, Central Indiana's Usenet BBS 317-881-4369

[e-mail] (Bill Gieske) writes:
> I have tons of old FORTRAN code, most of it in upper case, the majority
> of it not indented.  Is there a code beautifier, either PD or $$ that I
> can run the code through to improve the readability, hence the main-
> tainability?
> Reply to me direct.  I will summarize if appropriate.
> Bill Gieske
> AT&T Bell Laboratories
> [e-mail]

     Call "The Connection at 800-336-1166"  and ask for
their software catalog.

     In their catalog that I have, Sprint 1992, there is an
ad on page 39 from AutoCASE Technology.  They have
a product called "AutoFLOW-FORTRAN" that lists for $1,995.
It claims to automatically document your existing source code.
AutoCASE's number is 408-446-2273.

      On page 93 is an ad from POWERLINE Software Inc.
Their number is 800-257-5773, 206-623-9204.  They offer
a product called SOURCE PRINT+, which they call a code
management tool with "multi-style formatting with structured
code blocking."

They have a Fortran/Basic version for $169, and a Delux
Multi-language version for $249.  This program is for
DOS (MS-DOS presumably) Windows, and OS/2.

Hope this helps.

--
Dave Appel
The Grafted Branch BBS
317-881-4369
internet: [e-mail]
uucp: ..!uunet!grafted.UUCP!dappel
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        create cross reference of a FORTRAN program.

        CLEAN77 available from Purdue University.
        Mail Greg Flint (afc.klaatu.cc.purdue.edu) for more info.

        There is a program called TIDY that is available via
        FTP from simtel20  pub/msdos/fortran/tidy621.zip on
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From: [e-mail] (Steve Lionel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Code formatter for FORTRAN
Date: 15 Jun 1994 15:02:38 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Steve Lionel)


In article <2tn1bf$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Jan Gatowski EN/16) writes:
|>Does anyone know if there exists a (commercial or freeware) FORTRAN
|>code indenter/formatter? A friend is faced with revamping a largely
|>unreadable old code and could use any available tools to render it more
|>legible.

While I was at UK DECUS I attended a talk which described a product called
The FORTRAN Partner which has as its capabilities (according to the
documemtation I have):

    Screening: automatically checking whole FORTRAN programs for
    classes of error not detected by compiler

    Troubleshooting: analysing programmes interactively to expose
    problems or inconsistencies

    Porting: moving code to different FORTRAN environments

    Standardising: converting code to a consistent style and
    creating a framework for documentation

    Optimising: optimising code for speed of execution

The product is available on the following platforms:

    Alliant FX80
    Avalon Vaccelerator AP/30
    Digital VAX (OpenVMS)
    Digital Alpha AXP (OpenVMS)
    HP Risc Processors under Unix
    IBM PC and compatible systems with minimum 80386 processor
      and Maths Coprocessor
    IBM Risc System 6000 under AIX
    Parsys Supernode under Idris
    Silicon Graphics MIPS processors under IRIS
    Sun SPARC and compatible under Solaris and SunOS

The vendor is:

    Software Validation Limited
    PO Box 270
    Swindon SN4 0TQ
    England
    Tel: [phone]
    Fax: [phone]

A single workstation/PC price is given as 945 Pounds.  I don't know what
a US price would be.

One of the claims which impressed me was the ability to understand many
different syntax variants and convert them to a more standard form.  The
formatting rules are customizable.  (The optimizations consist of
inline expansion and loop unrolling.)

I have not actually tried this product (I just got a demo disc today) and
this should in no way be considered an endorsement of the product by
either myself or Digital Equipment Corporation.  However, it looks like
it would be worth considering for some applications.
--

Steve Lionel                      Mail: [e-mail]
SDT Languages Group               WWW:  http://www.digital.com/info/slionel.html
Digital Equipment Corporation
110 Spit Brook Road, ZKO2-3/N30
Nashua, NH 03062-2698             "Free advice is worth every cent"


Q13) Why are there aimless debates?

    There are some  persistent individuals who would like computer systems
    to work in a fashion somewhat unlike they do now. It seems pointless
    to debate with them; the debates (in various groups) always take
    the same form and never result in meaningful dialog.

    One can usually recognize such by reading a week or so's worth of
    postings. Sometimes you may have to read for a month to recognize
    such. When you do, please try to avoid triggering (or responding to)
    such individuals.

    Many (if not most) newsreaders support a feature entitled KILL files.
    As you recognize individuals, you may wish to put them into your
    local kill file. For example, the style employed by GNUS:

    (gnus-kill "From" "[e-mail]")
    (gnus-kill "Subject" "test")

    the first kills off all postings from the named individual,
    the second kills off all postings including the beloved "test" string.
    See your local NewsGod for details suitable for your local system.

Q14) How do I call f77 from C (and visa versa)
     This is quite platform dependent. For Suns see the FORTRAN User's
     Guide, Chapter 14.

    There is a package available from usenet which attempts to make
    this "quick and easy" for a wide range of platforms:

Host ftp.germany.eu.net

    Location: /newsarchive/comp.sources.misc/volume20
      DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x        512  Jul  7 1993  cfortran

Host ftp.sunet.se

    Location: /pub/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume20
      DIRECTORY drwxrwxr-x        512  May 28 1993  cfortran

Host ftp.wustl.edu

    Location: /usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume20
      DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x       8192  Oct 30 15:09  cfortran

Host halcyon.com

    Location: /dec/.0/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume20
      DIRECTORY dr-xr-xr-x        512  Jul  8 1993  cfortran

Host lth.se

    Location: /pub/netnews/sources.misc/volume20
      DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x        512  Jun  7 1993  cfortran

Host math.mps.ohio-state.edu

    Location: /pub/archives/comp.sources.misc/vol20
      DIRECTORY drwxrwxr-x        512  Jun  2 1993  cfortran


   It is on many other sites (around the world) too. See archie if
   you need other pointers.

   For some systems, you have to initialize a runtime system explicitly
   if you call a different language, and stopping execution from the
   other program may not work.

    The most recent version of cfortran.h is available via anon. ftp at
    zebra.desy.de.

;;;;

----8< -------------8< ---------------- 8< ------------8< --------------
First post:
 --From: [e-mail] (Rudi Vankemmel)
 --Subject: A: [F77-C] call NAG F77 Library in C ?
 --Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yongtao Chen ([e-mail]) wrote:
: .......
:      *  How to call NAG Fortran Library with C (under Unix)  ? *

:      We have a NAG Fortran Library on our machine but I do not
:      know how to call them in my C program.  Can anybody give
:      me some advice about how to do this?

 Hello,
  we have some programs written in C calling the NAG library (which
  is written in Fortran). There are a number of
  important things you must be aware of:

  1) Fortran uses a column wise storage of matrices while C stores them
     row wise. This means that when you want to parse a matrix from your
     C-program to the NAG (-fortran-) routine you must transpose the matrix
     in your program before entering the routine. Of course, any output
     from such a routine must be transposed again.

     If you ommit this step, then probably your program will run (because
     it has data to compute on) but it will generate wrong answers.

     B.T.W. if you have the Fortran source code (of any routine) then
     on some platforms you may use compiler directives specifying
     that the Fortran compiler must use row wise storage.  Some platforms
     support these directives. However watch out with this if you call
     the same routine from another Fortran routine/program.

  2) Your Fortran compiler may add an underscore "_" to the routine name
     in the symbol table e.g. subroutine example(..,..,..) becomes
     example_ in the table. Hence in the calling C-program/routine
     you must add a trailing underscore ! Otherwise the loader will complain
     about an undefined symbol "example" while "example_" is loaded.
     However, check your compiler for this. For example the Fortran compiler
     on VAX-VMS systems does NOT add a trailing underscore (there watch out
     with the fact that the VAX-Fortran compiler translates everything
     in uppercase).

  3) Fortran passes its variables by reference. This means that you MUST
     give adresses in your calling C-program (i know, this is a stupid
     remark but it is too often forgotten (my experience ....)).

  4) Watch out especially with float's and double's. Make sure that the
     size of the variable in the calling program is identical to the size
     in the Fortran routine e.g.  double <----> real*8, float <---> real
     This is extremely important on machines with little endian byte
     ordening. Parsing a float (C-routine) to a real*8 (Fortran) number
     will not generate SEGV but give wrong results as the data is parsed
     wrongly.

  5) Remember that the array index in Fortran starts at 1 while in C
     this is at index 0; hence a parsed array fortran_array[1:100]
     must be used in the C-routine/program as c_array[0:99].

  Good luck with it !!
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another post:
 --From: [e-mail] (Reginald Beardsley)
 --Subject: A: [F77-C] Fortran to c and c to fortran
 --Message-ID: <2081se$[e-mail]>

I do a lot of this.  The following is true on the following machines.  I cannot
say about others.

Sun 3 & 4
IBM RS/6000
SGI
DECstation
Intergraph Clipper (Apogee & Green Hills compilers)
H-P 7xx

1) If possible, do not pass strings to FORTRAN from C or vice versa.

2) Do not mix I/O on the same file descriptors.

3) Do all your math in FORTRAN, and all the rest in C if at all possible.

4) NEVER ever attempt to write the equivalent of a FORTRAN function that returns
   a character variable in C.  Life is too short for the suffering it causes.

5) If you do ANY I/O in FORTRAN, you MUST use a FORTRAN main program.

6) FORTRAN always passes pointers.

7) FORTRAN passes string lengths BY VALUE in the order the strings appear in the
argument list.  These do NOT appear in the FORTRAN argument list, but will
appear in the C argument list.

8) You will need to take care of nulls and blanks spaces explicitly if you ignore #1 above.

9) The Sun FORTRAN compiler used lex and yacc to do the conversion of a run time
format from a character variable.  If you use lex and yacc either rename the
variables and functions or partially link before you link to the FORTRAN
libraries.

10) FORTRAN symbols have trailing underscores appended.  Some compilers require
a compiler flag to get this.  Use it! It makes the code more portable.

11) Don't pass structures.  If you must access a structure element, pass a
pointer through to a routine which passes back the element pointer.

12) Don't forget that the storage orders for arrays is opposite and
transposition is expensive.

I currently have many lines of code with FORTRAN calling C calling FORTRAN.  It's not my choice of things to do, but it works well.  Much better than using
the wrong language for the task.  My only regret is that I'm forced to pass a
lot of strings between the two languages.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reginald H. Beardsley                    Contract Consultant/Programmer

         Mobil Exploration and Production Technology

Office: (214)-851-8547                   [e-mail]
Home:   (214)-306-3907

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followup to first post:
 --From: [e-mail] (Andrew Mullhaupt)
 --Subject: A3: [F77-C] How to call NAG Fortran Library with C ?
 --Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Christian Brechbuehler) writes:

>It is important that you know what's happening when Fortan and C access
>array elements.  But I never had to perform any "transposition" step in a
>program.  You just have to read the definitions the other way.  When the
>manual says   A(j+1,i+1)  I understand   this means  a[i][j]  in C, etc.

This is true enough, but there are times when you don't want to modify
already existing FORTRAN and C you may have to write a transposition wrapper.

This can be advisable for reasons of clarity (i.e. keeping the documentation
the code and the math in sync.) and for reasons of performance.

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt

;;;;

Most vendors have surprisingly complete documentation of this sort of
thing ... if one troubles to look for it. There is, for example, an
entire chapter in the SunPro Fortran documentation <khb>




Q15) What constitutes good FORTRAN style?

One rendition of a FORTRAN 77 style guide is available through anonymous
ftp from ics.uci.edu (128.195.1.1).  To retrieve (please note that it's
not really "anonymous", that's just the Name that you'll be using):

% ftp ics.uci.edu
anonymous
<enter your e-mail address at Password: prompt>
cd pub/levine
ascii
get F77_Style_Guide
bye

If you can't access this site directly, please send an e-mail request to
[e-mail] (BITNET: levine@uci, UUCP: ...!uunet!ucivax!levine).

Q16) For whatever reasons, I want to translate my Fortran into C.
    What tools are available?

    f90 from NAG, see above
    f2c see above.

    FORTRAN=C=FORTRIX=Rapitech Rapitech [phone]
    FORTRAN=C=FOR_C=Cobalt Blue  404 518 1116
    FORTRAN=C=PROMULA.FORTRAN=Promula [phone]

Q17) For whatever reasons, I want to translate my existing C code
     into Fortran. What tools are available?

Regretably none. This is indeed unfortunate, as even a limited
translator could help with typical C header files.

Q18) What is preprocessing, how can it help? How can it hurt?

Preprocessing often refers to usage of a Macro-prepressor upon ones
source code prior to compilation.

       How can this help?

It can make it easier to move code between machines.

       How can this hurt?

It can cause difficulties in compilation of the processed code; most (if
not all) macro-preprocessors know nothing about Fortran syntax and
code layout rules. So, a common problem is that after preprocessing
some text may be lost past "sacred" column 72. Those working with
compilers that optionally compile *past* line 72 should probably
employ that option when using a preprocessor.

Common prepressors are: cpp, m4, and ratfor. Many sites have their
own custom prepressors. Basic functions are:

    1) definition of a symbol
    2) conditional code selection based on a symbol
    3) substition of a symbol by its definition

Traditional BSD Unix f77 processors treat a file named foo.F (as
opposed to foo.f) as one that should be run through cpp prior to
compilation "automatically".

Q19) How can I convert an existing FORTRAN 77 program to the free form
     source of Fortran 90?

Source code conversion program from ftp
---------------------------------------

   Many people who start to code in Fortran 90 prefer to do so
using the new, less restictive, source form. However, a problem
arises when wanting to modify old FORTRAN 77 code while sticking
to the new style. To help in this situation, a source code conversion
program has been written (and well tested) and made availble by
anonymous ftp.

   Apart from the conversion, the program can:

       ensure that blanks are used correctly in the code as they are
       significant with the new source form;

       indent DO-loops and IF-blocks;

       replace CONTINUE by END DO, where appropriate;

       add subprogram names to END statements;

       change non-standard length specification syntax,
       like INTEGER*2, to the
       Fortran 90 equivalent, in all contexts (type statements, FUNCTION
       statements, and IMPLICIT statements);

       produce an interface block automatically from the source code of a
       procedure - useful to the library developer when wishing to use
       this important new facility with an existing library.

   The source code can be obtained by anonymous ftp to
jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk (130.246.8.23). When prompted for a userid, reply with

   anonymous

and give your name as password. The directory is /pub/MandR
and the file name is convert.f90.


                           Mike Metcalf
                           ([e-mail])


Q20) Who creates these silly standards anyway?

Typically X3J3. X3J3 is an ANSI subcommittee dedicated to Fortran. WG5
is the ISO counterpart. WG5 owns responsibility for Fortran on an
international basis. WG5 has previously tasked X3J3 to do the work.
This arrangement continues.

WG5 is composed of Fortran users, vendors, and academics from several
ISO supporting nations. Delegates represent *their*countries* not
their companies; so several delegates from a single company is
permitted.

ANSI rules prohibit multiple voting delegates from the same company.
X3J3 is composed of users (aerospace, government labs, military, DECUS,
railroads, oil to name a few), vendors (IBM, CRI, Sun, Convex, DEC,
UNISYS, to name a few) and the odd academic (oxford, yale, liverpool, to
name a couple). Members need not be US citizens nor must their company
be US domiciled. Being a member of a standards group is typically
involves non-trivial work. To be effective, one should plan on at
least 8 weeks of time per year (those who are really doing the hard
work do far more). This time commitment is typically far more
expensive than the travel and membership costs.

X3J3 meetings are open to the public. There are typically 4 meetings a
year, typically 3 are in the US and 1 *may* be overseas (to precede or
follow the WG5 plenary session). Membership fees are levied by ANSI,
and are on the near order of $400 (plus an extra $300ish for those who
wish to be members of the US delegation to ISO). In addition,
attendees to a particular X3J3 meeting pay a "meeting fee" which
covers reproduction costs, snacks and etc.

WG5 has established various goals and targets for future work. Roughly
speaking 5yrs rather than 13years are the targets for future work.

Current work projects include cleanup and interpretations of Fortran
(90), features for future versions of the standard (e.g. parallel
processing, "object-oriented" technologies, etc.). In addition to work
done directly by X3J3, there is work on standardized modules, and OS
bindings taking place in other organizations. X3J3 would like to keep
track of such efforts, those involved are invited to inform X3J3 early
in their development efforts if possible. X3J3 is currently working
with X3H5, DIN (varying string character) and tracking the efforts of
HPFF.

New members are always welcome. Visitors are also; though it is very
hard to get a good grip on things in only one meeting!

Contact the X3J3 chair for more information:

    [e-mail]   chair
    [e-mail]  vice-chair

Upcoming meetings are:

    February 7-11 1994 Palmdale California
    May    1994        Lake Tahoe
    Summer 1994        Scotland

Q21) How can I read my VAX binary data somewhere else?

     Some vendors provide bulit in methods (DEC provides this via
     special options on the OPEN statement). Others provide library support
     (on SPARC products, with the SunPro compilers, checkout convert_external)
     In addition, Accerl8 provides a commerial tool. Contact:

    Robert Hickler                            Tel   [phone]
    Accelr8 Technology                        Email [e-mail]

     for more information.

The following three Q's and A's based on email from:
    [e-mail] (Thomas Koenig)

Q22) My F77 program compiled ok on a <system1>, but gives me heaps of
     syntax errors on a <system2>. What's wrong?

     Most likely, the program was written with a line length greater than
     72. If your compiler supports it, turn on the option for greater
     line length (e.g. -e is not uncommon) ; otherwise, split up the
     lines by hand, or via one of those pretty-printers/restructing
     tools mentioned above.

Q23) My F77 program ran ok on a <system1>, but on a <system2> it just gives
     me strange results. What's wrong?

     There are different reasons why this could be. Possibly, your program
     violates the standard in some way which is not caught by the compiler
     on <system1>.

     Many programs rely on variables to be initialized to zero when a
     subroutine or function is first called, and also on the retention
     of values between calls. While many compilers (VAX/VMX and IBM VS,
     for example) exhibit this behaviour, compilers on newer
     architectures often fill variables with garbage on each new
     function call. This is permitted, according to the standard.

     Initialize variables explicitly, and put the variables which you need
     to keep across function calls into SAVE statements. Your compiler may
     have an option to trap unititialized variables; use that to find the
     trouble spots. Alternatively, compile using a flag which forces
     static allocation of all variables.

     Another problem might be that the accuracy of REAL and DOUBLE
     PRECISION differs between different platforms; that can cause
     roundoff error to wipe out your results or your program to go
     into endless loops.

     Yet another (and much more subtle) problem can occur if a lot of
     formatted I/O is employed. The conversion from internal to
     external representations can introduce very significant errors;
     much worse on some platforms than others (doing correctly rounded
     base conversion is expensive).

     There are, of course, lots of other possibilities, these are just
     a starting point.

Q24) Is there a WEB for Fortran (and what is web anyway)?

     FWEB is available via anonymous ftp; use archie(above) to
     determine current location(s).

     As for the more general question, what is WEB .... WEB is a
     "literate" programming system created by Knuth (he of reference
     book fame, and TeX fame, and etc.). It permits the programmer to
     write code and documentation together. WEB takes the "high level
     code and documentation" and creates real publishable
     documentation (using TeX or LaTeX) and compilable code. WEB
     versions for many languages are available.

     Some features of FWEB are:

      1)  FWEB is a pretty printer.  Code is pretty printed by
          sending the FWEB file through "fweave" and "TeX". fweave
          inserts TeX control characters around the code for
          pretty printing.  Fweave also collects a
          cross-referenced index of *all* identifiers and prints
          them at the end of the code listing.

      2)  FWEB has built in macro preprocessing, which *does*
          understand FORTRAN syntax and code layout rules.  A line
          extending beyond column 72 will be broken into proper
          continuation lines.

      3)  FWEB is multilingual: it understands C,C++,f77,f90, and
          RatFor.



Q25) Where can I find coded BLAS (and what are coded BLAS?)

The BLAS (basic linear algebra software) comes in several flavors:
BLAS-1, -2, and -3. These can be described as scalar, vector and
matrix-matrix levels. "Coded" BLAS are either hand coded in assembler,
or at least tweaked for a given machine. Some vendors provide these,
some are provided on the net (see archie) and some are marketed by
various commercial organizations.

In addition, it should be noted that BLAS-3 is very amenable to
parallel processing. Done cleverly, this could be done by a network of
processors over a net. DSS markets just such an implementation. Contact:

     Mike Boucher
    Dakota Scientific Software, Inc.
    501 East Saint Joseph Street
    Rapid City, SD  57701-3995
    fax: [phone]
    [e-mail]

for more information about their implementation.

Q26)  How common is DO ... END DO

      It is very common; and of course is part of Fortran 90.
      Compilers claimed to *not* support it (much shorter list this
      way)

              1) Salford ftn77/Primos version
        2) Prime f77 compiler
        3) Microsoft Fortran for CP/M 8080/Z80 machines
        4) Fujitsu VPxxx UXP/M compiler


Q27) Where can I learn more about the history of Fortran?
From: [e-mail] (Michael Metcalf )
The history of Fortran is documented in:

Annals of History of Computing, 6, 1, January, 1984 (whole issue).

Programming Systems and Languages (S. Rosen ed.), McGraw Hill, 1967, pp 29-47
    (this is Backus's original paper).

History of Prorammining Languages (R.L. Wexelblat ed.), Academic Press, 1981,
              pp 25-74.

A summary appears in vol. 5 of the Encyclopedia of Science and Technology,
Academic Press, 1986, under 'Fortran'.
and in Chapter 1 of Fortran 90 Explained (Oxford, 1990).

Q28) Fortran text editors?

Thomas Koenig, [e-mail], [e-mail]
      If you use EMACS, you can use M-x fortran-mode.  An extended
      version, which includes the fortran-auto-fill-mode minor mode, is
      available via anonymous ftp from hallc1.cebaf.gov [129.57.32.62]
      in the directory /emacs.

More generally, Unipress emacs has a Fortran mode. There are XEDIT,
BRIEF, TPU and EDT clones available on many common platforms these
days.

Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
From: [e-mail] ("John E. Davis")
Subject: Re: Fortran FAQ
In-Reply-To: [e-mail]'s message of 05 Apr 1994 02:14:15 GMT
Followup-To: comp.lang.fortran
Reply-To: [e-mail] (John E. Davis)
Organization: "Dept. of Physics, The Ohio State University"
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 05:51:14 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (chiba)
writes:
   Q28) Fortran text editors?
   [...]
   More generally, Unipress emacs has a Fortran mode. There are XEDIT,
   BRIEF, TPU and EDT clones available on many common platforms these
   days.

In addition, JED has a Fortran mode that is very much like the emacs Fortran
mode.  JED also has a very nice EDT emulation and runs on MSDOS, Unix, VMS, as
well as DEC Alpha systems.

The latest version of JED is on amy.tch.harvard.edu in pub/jed.  Archie will
show it elsewhere but these versions are somewhat dated.  The latest version
is 0.95.  Despite the fact that the version number is below 1.0, the editor is
VERY stable--- the version is below 1.0 because I feel that the documentation
is not quite up to 1.0 levels.

Here is a partial list of features:

    runs under Unix, VMS, and IBMPC (all versions)
    X Window version also available
    emacs*, wordstar*, EDT* emulation
    C, Fortran*, tex*, text editing modes
    C-like extension language called S-Lang.
    user configurable (bind keys, write functions, etc....)
    region highlighting (even on character based terminals!)
    Syntax highlighting in Beta test (even on character based terminals)
    8 bit clean, edit binary files too.
    rectangular (box) cut/paste
    backup and autosave files
    full undo
    regular expressions
    GNU Emacs compatable info reader*
    calendar*
    mail*, elm like rmail* (rmail new in 0.95 version)
    dired directory editor*
    automatic horizontal pan/scroll  (configurable)
    parenthesis matching/blinking
    filename, buffername, function name completion
    Menu driven for novice users*
    incremental search/replace*
    sorting
    no hardcoded buffer/line limits
    multiple windows and buffers
    keyboard macros with macro query feature.
    buffer mode lines are configurable, e.g., display time, line number, etc...
    ispell*
    shell commands and ``interactive'' shell*

* Note:  these functions are written in the extension language.


--
     _____________
#___/John E. Davis\_________________________________________________________
#
# internet: [e-mail]
#   bitnet: davis@ohstpy
#   office: 617-735-6746
#

Q29) What are ENCODE and DECODE statements, and how are they translated to
     standard Fortran?

ENCODE and DECODE are vendor extensions to Fortran (invented in the
sixties, long before X3.9-1978 added internal I/O to the language)
which are most often used to convert data between numeric and
character representations.  They may be viewed as formatted writes to
(ENCODE) or reads from (DECODE) memory.  The standard-conforming
alternatives are internal write and internal read statements
respectively.

For example,
     INTEGER MONTH, DAY, YEAR
     MONTH = 7
     DAY = 4
     YEAR = 93
C    FORM THE STRING  7/ 4/93 IN VARIABLE "DATE"
     ENCODE (8,10,DATE) MONTH,DAY,YEAR
 10  FORMAT (I2,'/',I2,'/',I2)

The above can be translated as "write 8 characters, formatted according to
format 10, storing the results in variable DATE, and using the contents of
variables MONTH, DAY, and YEAR as the data to write."

A DECODE statement would be used to reverse the process (extract the
variables MONTH2, DAY2, and YEAR2 from the string DATE).  Thus:

     INTEGER MONTH2, DAY2, YEAR2
     DECODE (8,20,DATE) MONTH2, DAY2, YEAR2
 20  FORMAT (I2,1X,I2,1X,I2)

Conversion of ENCODE/DECODE to standard Fortran-77 is not difficult.  The
critical thing to remember is that the variable to be written to (ENCODE)
or read from (DECODE) must be a CHARACTER variable which is long enough to
contain the string.  The first number within the parentheses (in this case
8) is the minimum length to use in a type declaration.  Thus a standard-
conforming equivalent of the above example is:

     CHARACTER*8 DATE
     INTEGER MONTH, DAY, YEAR
     INTEGER MONTH2, DAY2, YEAR2
     MONTH = 7
     DAY = 4
     YEAR = 93
     WRITE (DATE,10) MONTH, DAY, YEAR
 10  FORMAT (I2,'/',I2,'/',I2)
     READ (DATE,20) MONTH2, DAY2, YEAR2
 20  FORMAT (I2,1X,I2,1X,I2)

Although the above example used integers, any other data type may also be
used.

<[e-mail] (Al Stangenberger)>

Q30) Tell me about Parallel Fortran dialects, what are they,etc.

Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.parallel.pvm
From: [e-mail] (Larry Meadows)
Subject: Re: Parallel FORTRAN Questions
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 00:13:33 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host: pacific2.pgroup.com
Organization: The Portland Group

[e-mail] (Steve Spencer) writes:

>We are trying to decide what parallel FORTRAN environment
>to port to a MIMD multiprocessor that we are building
>for ARPA. We are looking for information on the follwing
>environments:

>    FORTRAN90
>        HPF (High Performance FORTRAN from Rice U. I think)
>    FORTRAN D
>        PVM (works with F77 to provide a parallel env.)

>Does anyone know where we can get information on the
>above programming environments or any others that may
>be appropriate?

Fortran90 is an ANSI and an ISO standard.  The usual reference is
Fortran 90 Handbook, published by McGraw Hill.  Several vendors provide
Fortran 90 translators and/or compilers.

HPF is Fortran 90 augmented with data distribution statements to
allow portable programming for distributed memory multiprocessors.
The language was defined by a committee consisting of over 40
organizations over a period of about one year.  The effort was
spearheaded by Geoffrey Fox and Ken Kennedy.  Several vendors have
announced HPF products or development efforts.
The language document is available via anoymous ftp:

    ftp cs.rice.edu
    cd public/HPFF/draft
    get hpf-v10-final.ps.Z

Fortran D is a precursor to HPF; as a commercial product it has been
superceded by HPF, but several academic projects still exist that target
Fortran D.

PVM is a message passing library and run-time environment; as such, it
exists at a lower level than the previous items.  One might imagine an
HPF compiler that produced FORTRAN77 with calls to PVM.  There is a newsgroup
on PVM.  It is available through netlib, and possibly from Oak Ridge as
well.

Hope this helps.
--
Larry Meadows        The Portland Group
[e-mail]
;;;;
Q31) Where can I find a f90 tutorial?



Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
From: [e-mail] (Michael Metcalf )
Subject: f90 tutorial on World Wide Web
Keywords: f90 WWW
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 12:15:43 GMT


   Those of you with access to the World Wide Web (WWW) may like
to know that my colleague Michel Goossens has now installed a
Fortran 90 tutorial under the URL

  http://asis01.cern.ch/CN/CNTUT/f90/Overview.html

There is no copyright on this material.

   To access WWW, try typing www on your workstation or look for
its icon on your PC. If it's unavailable, please contact your
system manager, not me.


                      Mike Metcalf
                      ([e-mail])

Q32) Where can I get mathematical software

    There are, of course, many commerical operations which provide
    high quality software. NAG and IMSL to name just two.

    netlib and archie (mentioned above) can be used to good effect
    to find specific freeware (public domain, shareware or mostly freely
    distributable source).

    In addition, NASA's COSMIC distributes some government funded
    software.

    One particular bit of NASA software, MATH77 a large math
    library created by numerical analysts at JPL is available from:

        Language Systems Corp.
        441 Carlisle Dr.
        Herndon, VA 22070
        [phone]
        email: [e-mail]

Q33) What is the best Fortran for...

Such recommendations are, at best, personal opinions. I've <khb>
tracked some of the discussions and it would appear that

    a) For the mac, Language Systems

    800-252-6479 (inside US and Canada)
    703-478-0181
    703-689-9593 (fax)
    703-709-0134 (BBS)

    langsys (Applelink)
    langsys (America Online)
    [e-mail] (Internet)

    Language Systems Corp.
    100 Carpenter Drive
    Sterling, VA 20164

    b) For the PC it is harder. Many like Lahey

    Lahey Computer Systems, Inc.
    865 Tahoe Blvd.
    P.O. Box 6091
    Incline Village, Nevada 89450

    Phones: [phone]
            [phone]

    Fax:    [phone]
    BBS:    [phone].

    UUNET: Sales        [e-mail]
           Tech support [e-mail]

    Good code generation, good diagnostics, fast compilation, and
    good support are often quoted as reasons why folks liked LCS.


Q34) What Classes are available (an ever changing list)

Date: Wed, 29 Jun 94 09:19:59 EDT
From: "Janice Shepherd" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Fortran 90 course
X-List: [e-mail]
Reply-To: "Janice Shepherd" <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail]
Precedence: list

If you are anywhere near Toronto and you want to learn more about
Fortran 90, you might be interested in the following course.
There is some mention of extensions, but the bulk of the course
concentrates on Fortran 90.

The XL Fortran team has recently put together a three-day hands-on
course that focuses on: 1) the new features introduced by Fortran 90,
and 2) XL Fortran extensions.  The first offering takes place later
this year in Toronto.  Please let Luc know if you have any questions.

  SCHEDULE        October 12-14, 1994 (9:00AM - 5:00PM)
  LOCATION        IBM Canada Limited
                  3600 Steeles Avenue East
                  Markham, Ontario (just outside Toronto)
  COST            $1185 (Canadian) per student
  PREREQUISITES   FORTRAN 77 experience and some UNIX knowledge
  REGISTRATION    Contact IBM Education and Training (1-800-661-2131 or
                  905-946-1100)
  COURSE DETAILS  Contact Luc Chamberland (lchamber@torolab4 or
                  [e-mail])

Janice C. Shepherd
IBM Toronto Lab.

;;;

Bo Einarsson and Yurij Shokin have written a tutorial on the transition
from Fortran 77 to Fortran 90, with the title "Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77
programmer". The English version is available as a pure ASCII text file
via anonymous ftp from the computer nsc.liu.se (130.236.100.5) and is
available in the directory pub/bibliotek as the file f77to90.txt.
;;;;


Q35) f90.faq


F90 FAN's : Fortran 90 Frequently Asked about News.
A Fortran 90 addition to the Fortran FAQ.

Michel Olagnon - October   1st, 1993.
Last updated   - May      24th, 1994.

Send flames and suggestions for improvement to [e-mail]

Contents :
========

|  1.- Fortran 90 and Fortran 77
   2.- Available in Fortran 90:
       Compilers
|      Code re-structurers and converters
|      Libraries and utilities
       Tests and Benchmarks
       Tutorials
       Examples
       Courses and Consultancy
   3.- Documentation:
       Standards
       Journals
|      Books
|      Articles
   4.- Fortran 90 Benchmarking
   5.- Announced, foreseen, and rumours
   6.- Workshops, seminars, conferences
   7.- Developments, related languages
       Standard
       HPF
       PVM
       Parallel Programming
   8.- Addresses


1.- Fortran 90 and Fortran 77:
##############################

  Fortran 90 is, with very few exceptions, a superset of Fortran 77.
The FAQ of the Usenet group Comp.lang.fortran deals with both
standards, and may be obtained, like any FAQ, via anonymous ftp from
rtfm.mit.edu, directory /pub/usenet. It is also available on the WWW
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/fortran-faq/faq.html
  The present document is an attempt to supplement that FAQ with some
specific Fortran 90 information.
  Anyone interested is also invited to join the mailbase list
comp-fortran-90, by sending an e-mail message to [e-mail],
containing as the only line:
join comp-fortran-90 <firstname> <lastname>

  The main extensions of Fortran 90 over Fortran 77 are:
 * array notation (for instance, X(1:N)=R(1:N)*COS(A(1:N)))
 * dynamic memory allocation (ALLOCATE, DEALLOCATE, ...)
 * derived types and operator overloading
 * better declarations, and prototyping possible
 * MODULES, allowing users to create ``storage pools'',
    or to define environment
 * more of modern control structures (SELECT CASE, EXIT, ...)
 * more of useful intrinsics (date, precision, arrays, ...)
 * free format source code form

  ``Pure'' Fortran 77 is F90 compatible. Yet, it is better to convert
it to a ``mixed'' format, acceptable both as free and fixed source
form Fortran 90, which only requires replacing C by ! as the comment
character, to use & as the continuation line character, and
to append it to the continued line, to remove blanks embedded inside
constants or identifiers, and to check some intrinsics usage. Most
of this can be done automatically.

  Fortran 90 allows the Fortran 77 programmer to write code faster,
to make it more legible, and to avoid many bugs. For a newcomer to
programming, it is an opportunity to learn a modern language, with
most recommended features, and yet to be in line with scientific
and industrial engineering communities where Fortran is and is going
to remain for a good while THE favourite language.

2.- Available in Fortran 90:
############################

Compilers
---------
  CRAY              CF90 - presently, for Crays YMP and YMP-C90

  EPC Fortran 90         - for Sparc Solaris 1.X and 2.X, IBM RS/6000,
                           Intel 3/486 (SVR3&4, Solaris 2.x),
                           Motorola 88000/100/100 (SVR3&4)

  IBM             XLF V3 - full compiler for RISC System/6000

  MicroWay               - for DOS, OS/2, Unix

  NAG                f90 - uses C as intermediate language

  Pacific Sierra VAST-90 - uses F77 as intermediate language

  Parasoft               - uses F77 as intermediate language

  Salford          FTN90 - PC implementation of NAG f90, direct
                           generation of object code.

  NOTE: Some vendors, such as Fujitsu with its "Numerical Workbench"
        for Sparc Solaris 2.x, or Convex on their machines, offer
        a number of F90 extensions, for instance array syntax or
        ALLOCATE instruction.

Code re-structurers and converters
----------------------------------
  Pacific-Sierra VAST-90 (see article by JKP in Fortran Journal 5/4)

  FOREST-90, by Simulog

  NAGWare f90 tools, pretty-printer, declarations standardiser,
                     precision standardiser, names changer.

  CONVERT, conversion to F90 free format, proposed by
                          Mike Metcalf via anonymous ftp on
                          jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk (130.246.8.23),
                          file /pub/MandR/convert.f90.

  ftof90.c, minimal F77 -> F90 conversion, via anonymous ftp on
                          molene.ifremer.fr (134.246.150.6),
                          file pub/ifremer/fortran90/ftof90.c)

Libraries and utilities
-----------------------
  NAG fl90, numerical and statistical library, Sun 4 and Sgi.

  Syntax verifier extracted from NAG compiler, put into
           public domain by NAG for Sun 3, Sun 4, Sgi.

  Lahey has F90 components (manual, array intrinsics, front end,...)
           that they would like to license to others.

  CADNA, by professeur Vignes from Universite Pierre et Marie Curie,
           implements stochastic arithmetic in Fortran 90, and
           enables monitoring of precision loss and/or numerical
           instabilities during execution. (Control of Accuracy
           and Debugging for Numerical Aplications in Fortran)
           More information available from ICHOR. (see also
           aricles by J. Vignes)


  ISO/IEC 1539-2            - Variable length character strings
 (Draft auxiliary standard)   in Fortran (with a demonstration
                              of implementation)

  LAPACK, (minimaly) translated by myself, successfully passed
          all its tests with NAg-f90 2.0.
          I aggressively translated single precision Blas,
          and intend to do the same with other Blas as soon as
          I have time.
          Steve Moulton works on LAPACK conversion.

Tests and Benchmarks
--------------------

  NAGware Test suite   - tests for compilers (same (?) as:
  U_F90_TS Test suite  - from Dr. Brian Smith (University
                    of New Mexico), marketed by Unicomp and NAG.

  Lahey Test suite     - F77 & F90 (license agreement)

  SHAPE Test suite     - 3400 tests of array instructions,
                         from Spackman & Hendrickson, Inc.

  Parasoft Test suite  - 1500 tests for compilers

  Quetzal Benchmark from John K. Prentice, via anonymous ftp on
                    unmfys.unm.edu, in pub/quetzal.

  Benchmark of Syracuse University, via anonymous ftp on
                    minerva.npac.syr.edu, in /benchmark.

  Channel benchmark by John D. McCalpin, via anonymous ftp on
                    perelandra.cms.udel.edu, in bench/channel.

Tutorials
---------
   Michel Goossens has now installed a Fortran 90 tutorial on the
  World Wide Web (WWW) under the URL :
    http://asis01.cern.ch/CN/CNTUT/f90/Overview.html
  There is no copyright on this material.


Examples
--------
  Nag has set up a repository for contributed code:
      WWW:  http://www.nag.co.uk:70/1/nagware/Examples
   Gopher:  Host=www.nag.co.uk, Port=70, Type=1, Path=1/nagware/Examples

  Lahey Computer Systems is planning to set up an FTP'able site for F90
        modules - a kind of clearing house for public domain code.
        More info soon !

  11 000 lines offered by Richard Maine via anonymous ftp on
                          ftp.dfrf.nasa.gov (130.134.64.17),
                          file pub/fdas/f90sample/fdas.tar.Z

  STEJOI, statistical package for joint occurrence events, on Sun,
                          including source code and everything,
                          via anonymous ftp on molene.ifremer.fr,
                          file pub/ifremer/fortran90/f90dvl.tar.Z.

  Module unsigned_32, for definition and use of unsigned 32 bits
                          integers, also on molene.ifremer.fr,
                          file pub/ifremer/fortran90/unsi32.f90.Z.

  Algorithm 999 by A.G. Buckley for unconstrained nonlinear
                          minimization, on ftp.royalroads.ca,
                          pub/software/bbuckley/alg999/source.

Courses and Consultancy
-----------------------
      IT Independent Training Limited, UK

      CTS, Germany

      Unicomp, USA
      Pacific-Sierra Research Corp., USA


3.- Documentation:
##################

Standards
---------
ISO/IEC 1539:1991 (E)
International Standard
Information technology - Programming langages - Fortran
Somewhat expensive (CHF 210 ~ US$ 140 !) for instance, at ISO.
Surprisingly enough, the identical, save for foreword and
acknowledgements, ANSI standard X3.198-1992 is even more expensive.
Walter S. Brainerd, Unicomp., offers:
- for 125 US$, an electronic ascii monouser version,
- for 125 + 10n US$, an electronic PostScript version, and the right
to make n paper copies,
- or for 1000 US$, an electronic ditroff monouser version.

A French translation is available as European norm NF EN 21539.


Journals
--------
Fortran Journal
ISSN 1060-0221
Enquiries: Walt Brainerd [e-mail]
Subscriptions: Fortran Users Group / P.O. Box 4201 / Fullerton, CA 92634
             (about $30/year individual, $100/year company,
              ~$50/$150 outside the USA, call 1 [phone])

Fortran Forum
edited by Loren Meissner.


Books
------

 * in English,

Adams, Brainerd, Martin, Smith, Wagener.
Fortran 90 Handbook, McGraw-Hill, 1992.
ISBN 0-07-000406-4

Brainerd, W., Goldberg, and Adams.
Programmer's guide to Fortran 90, 2nd edition, Unicomp, 1994.
ISBN 0-07-000248-7

Counihan.
Fortran 90, Pitman, 1991.
ISBN 0-273-03073-6

Ellis, T.M.R, Lahey, T. and Philips, I.
Fortran 90 Programming, Addison Wesley, 1994
ISBN 0-201-54446-6

Hahn, B.D.
Fortran 90 for Scientists and Engineers, Edward Arnold, 1994.
ISBN 0-340-60034-9

Kerrigan, J.
Migrating to Fortran 90, O'Reilly and Associates, 1993
ISBN 1-56592-049-X

Charles H. Koelbel, David B. Loveman, Robert S. Schreiber,
Guy L. Stelle Jr., Mary E. Zosel
High Performance Fortran Handbook, MIT Press, 349 pages, 1994.
ISBN 0-262-61094-9 $24.95 in paper back
ISBN 0-262-11185-3 $45 for hard cover

Metcalf, M. and Reid, J.
Fortran 90 Explained, Oxford University Press, 1992.
ISBN 0-19-853772-7

Morgan and Schonfelder,
Programming in Fortran 90, Alfred Waller Ltd., 1993.
ISBN 1-872474-06-3

 * in French,

ABERTI, C.
Fortran 90: Initiation  partir du Fortran 77, Serie Informatique, 1992.
ISBN 2-090615-00-6

AIN, M.
Savez-vous parler Fortran, Bibliotheque des universites (de Boeck), 1994.
ISBN 2-8041-1755-3

DELANNOY, C.
Programmer en Fortran 90, Eyrolles, 1992.
ISBN 2-212-08723-3

DUBESSET, M. et VIGNES, J.
Les specificites du Fortran 90, editions Technip, 1993.
ISBN 2-7108-0652-5

LIGNELET, P.
Fortran 90: Approche par la Pratique, Serie Informatique, 1993.
ISBN 2-090615-01-4

METCALF, M. et REID, J. (translated by M. Caillet and B. Pichon)
Fortran 90: Les concepts fondamentaux, AFNOR Editions, 1993.
ISBN 2-12-486513-7


 * in German,

Gehrke.
Fortran 90 Referenz-Handbuch, Carl Hansen Verlag, 1991.
ISBN 3-446163-21-2

Heisterkamp.
Fortran 90: Eine Informelle Einfuehrung, BI-Wissenschaftsverlag, 1991.
ISBN 3-411153-21-0

Langer.
Programmieren in Fortran, Springer Verlag, 1993.
ISBN 0-387-82446-4

Schobert, Oldenburg.
Programmierung in Fortran 90, 1991.

Ueberhuber, C., Meditz, P.
Software-Entwicklung in Fortran 90, Springer Verlag, 1993.
ISBN 0-387-82450-2

Wojcieszynski, B, Wojcieszynski, R.
Fortran 90 Programmieren mit dem neuen Standard, Addison-Wesley, 1993.
ISBN 3-89319-600-5.


 * in Russian,

Metcalf, Reid
Fortran 90 Explained

 * in Japanese

Metcalf, Reid (translated by H.Nisimura, H.Wada, K.Nishimura, M.Takata)
Fortran 90 Explained, Kyoritsu Shuppan Co., Ltd., 1993


Articles
--------
Appleby, D., FORTRAN First in a six-part series on languages that have
stood the test of time -- BYTE, Sep. 1991, 147-150

Bernheim, M., Fortran Mode d'emploi - Fortran 90 -- Intereditions (1991)
163-176

Brankin, R.W., Gladwell, I., A Fortran 90 Version of RKSUITE: An ODE Initial
Value Solver, Annals of Numerical Mathematics, Vol 1, 1994, in press.

Buckley, Albert G., Conversion to Fortran 90: A Case Study -- accepted
(Sep. 93) for ACM TOMS (ftp.royalroads.ca:pub/software/bbuckley/alg999)

Buckley, Albert G., Algorithm 999: A Fortran 90 code for unconstrained
non linear minimisation -- accepted (Sep. 93) for ACM TOMS

Chesneaux, J.M., Description d'utilisation du logiciel CADNA_F --
MASI 92.32 (1992) Institut Blaise Pascal, Paris

Corde, P., Girou, D., Fortran 90: la nouvelle norme -- Tribunix
Dossiers calculateurs, Vol 8. No. 41 (1992) 12-17

Du Croz, Jeremy J., Building Libraries with Fortran 90
Fortran Journal 4/5, Sep./Oct 1992

Glassy, L., Tiny-Ninety: A subset of F90 for beginning programmers --
Fortran Journal 4/3, May/Jun. 1992, 2-6

Hanson, R.J., A design of high-performance Fortran 90 Libraries --
IMSL technical report series No. 9201 (1992)

Hanson, R.J., Matrix multiplication in Fortran 90 using Strassen's
algorithm -- Fortran Journal 4/3, May/Jun. 1992, 6-7

Iles, Robert, Fortran 90: The First Two Years -- Unicom Seminar on
Fortran and C in Scientific Computing, 1993.

Iles, R., Palant, L., Fortran 90: 2 ans deja -- Tribunix No. 49
Mai/Juin 1993, 32-37.

Lahey, T., Fortran 90 is coming ! -- Programmer's Journal, Mar/Apr 1991.

Lignelet, P., Fortran -- Les Techniques de l'ingenieur, H2120, Dec 1993.

Maine, R., Review of NAG Fortran 90 translator -- Fortran Journal 3/6,
Nov/dec 1991.

Metcalf, M., Recent progress in Fortran standardization -- Computer
Physics Communications 57 (1989) 78-83.

Metcalf, M., Fortran 90 - A summary -- Int. Journal of modern Physics C,
Vol. 1, Nos. 2&3 (1990) 193-206.

Metcalf, M., A derived data type for data analysis -- Computers in
Physics, Nov/Dec 1991, 599-604.

Metcalf, M., A first encounter with Fortran 90 -- Fortran Journal 4/1,
Jan/Feb 1992, 2-7.

Metcalf, M., An encounter with F90 -- Particle World 3/3 (1993),
130-134.

Metcalf, M., Fortran 90 Tutorial -- CERN Computer Newsletter,
Nos. 206/207/208/209/210/211 (1992-1993).

Metcalf, M., Using the f90 compiler as a software tool -- CERN Computer
Newsletter, No. 209 (1992).

Metcalf, M., Still programming after these years -- New Scientist,
(12 Sep. 1992), 30-33

Olagnon, M., Experience with NagWare f90 -- Fortran Journal 4/6,
Nov/dec 1992, 2-5.

de Polignac, Christian, Du Fortran VAX au Fortran 90 -- Decus, Paris,
7 Avril 1993.

Prentice, John K., Fortran 90 benchmark results -- Fortran Journal 5/3,
May/June 1993.

Reid, John, The Fortran 90 Standard -- Programming environments for high
level scientific problem solving, Gaffney ed., IEEE Trans.,
North-Holland (1992), 343-348.

Reid, John, Fortran 90, the language for scientific computing in the
1990s --Unicom Seminar on Fortran and C in Scientific Computing, 1992

Reid, John, The advantages of Fortran 90 -- Computing 48, 219-238.

Robin, F., Fortran 90 et High Performance Fortran, Bulletin technique
CEA, Oct. 1992, 3-7.

Sawyer, M., A summary of Fortran 90 -- EPCC-TN92-04, Univ. of Edinburgh,
(1992).

Schonfelder, J.L., Semantic extension possibilities in the proposed
new Fortran -- Software practice and experience, Vol.19, (1989),
529-551.

Schonfelder, J.L., Morgan, J.S., Dynamic strings in Fortran 90 --
Software practice and experience, Vol.20(12), (1990), 1259-1271.

Sipelstein, J.M., Blelloch, G.E., Collection-oriented languages --
Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 79, No. 4, (1991), 504-530.

Vignes, Jean, Vers un calcul scientifique fiable : l'arithmetique
stochastique -- La Vie des Sciences, Comptes rendus, serie generale,
tome 10, 1993, No 2, 81-101.

Vignes, Jean, A stochastic arithmetic for reliable scientific computation
MATCOM 940 - Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 35 (1993) 233-261.

Walker, D.W., A Fortran 90 code for magnetohydrodynamics. Part I:
banded convolution -- Oak Ridge National Lab. report TM-12032 (1992).

Walter, W., Fortran 90: Was bringt der neue Fortran-Standard fuer das
numerische Programmieren ? -- Jahrbuch Ueberblicke Mathematik Vieweg,
(1991) 151-174.

Wampler, K. Dean, The Object-Oriented programming Paradigm and Fortran
programs -- Computers in Physics, Jul/Aug 1990, 385-394.

Willhoft, Robert G., Comparison of the functional Power of APL2 and
Fortran 90 -- APL Quote Quad, 1991


4.- Fortran 90 Benchmarking
###########################

  An interesting article by John K. Prentice appeared in the
May/June 93 issue of Fortran Journal.
He also gave a more complete one in HPNews July/August 93.

  I made some tests myself with LAPACK, and got a ratio of 10
between Sun f77 and Nag f90 2.0 when no source change was performed.
With an aggressive rewriting, especially using array instructions
and intrinsics, the ratio gets back to 2, which is also that of a
f77 [sd]axpy to a C one.

  On actual applications, this ratio seems to be much closer to 1,
and even sometimes in favor of Fortran 90. On Sept. 7th, 1993, John
wrote "I think there is in fact beginning to be a quite large body of
evidence to suggest that most of the efficiency fears about F90 are
unfounded."

  For Nag f90 on workstations, the effect of the underlying C
compiler (gcc, vendor, etc...) seems very limited (less than 4%).


5.- Announced, foreseen, and rumours
####################################

  CRAY full compiler CF90 in a Sparc version in 94
  DEC full compiler (officially June 1994)
  Sun full compiler (unofficially mid-94)
  MicroSoft after next release of present PowerStationFortran
  Lahey (2nd quarter 94,
         pre-order, +400$ when buying F77L-EM/32)
  NA Software F90+, from ESPRIT - Supernode II project (June 1994)

6.- Workshops, seminars, conferences
####################################

   3 -  5 May  94. "Parallel processing in Fortran" Seminar,
    Placerville, California. Applied Parallel Research, Inc.

   18 - 21 October 94 "High Performance Fortran (HPF)" Workshop,
    Swiss Scientific Computing Center, CSCS-ETHZ, Manno (Ticino),
    Switzerland. Applied Parallel Research, Inc.

7.- Developments, related languages
###################################

Standard
--------
  Work did not stop with the publication of the Fortran 90 standard.
A new release is scheduled for 1996 (called 95), mainly devoted to
clarifications, corrections and interpretations. A more important
revision is scheduled for 2000 (or 2001 ? called F2k though C.Burley's
F00 is a pleasant alternative).
  Documents related to the work of X3J3 can be found via anonymous
ftp on ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu, directory x3j3.

HPF
---
  High Performance Fortran (HPF) is a language for programming
massively parallel architectures. It lets the user insert directives
for code and data distribution among the processors in the
(Fortran 90) code.
Electronic copies of HPF draft specification are available by anonymous
FTP from the following sources:
 Machine name            File name
 titan.cs.rice.edu       public/HPFF/draft/hpf-v10-final.tar
 titan.cs.rice.edu       public/HPFF/draft/hpf-v10-final.tar.Z
 titan.cs.rice.edu       public/HPFF/draft/hpf-v10-final.ps
 titan.cs.rice.edu       public/HPFF/draft/hpf-v10-final.ps.Z
 think.com               public/HPFF/hpf-v10-final.ps.Z
 ftp.gmd.de              hpf-europe/hpf-v10-final.ps.Z
 theory.tc.cornell.edu   pub/hpf-v10-final.ps.Z
 minerva.npac.syr.edu    public/hpf-v10-final.tar.Z

PVM
---
  Parallel Virtual Machine consists of a library and a run-time
environment which allow the distribution of a program over a network
of (even heterogeneous) computers. It works with Fortran 77
(which is the way we presently use it), C and probably Fortran 90.
  There is a usenet comp.parallel.pvm group, and the FAQ for it
can be found via anonymous ftp on rtfm.mit.edu, /pub/usenet.

Parallel Programming
--------------------
  An interesting report can be obtained via anonymous ftp on
bulldog.wes.army.mil:/pub/report.ps.Z, for a large review of
products related to parallel systems programming.


8.- Addresses
#############

AFNOR, Tour Europe, Cedex 7, F-92049 Paris la Defense, France
   tel: [phone]

Applied Parallel Research, Inc., 550 Main St., Placerville, CA 95667
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone], [e-mail]
   ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/forge/home.html

CTS, Prinz-Otto Str. 7c, D-85521 Ottobrunn, Germany
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone]

DEC
   http://www.digital.com/info.html, [e-mail]

EPC, 17 Alva St, Edinburgh, EH2 4PH, United Kingdom
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone], [e-mail]
EPC, 20 Victor Square, Scotts Valley, California 95066
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone], [e-mail]

Fortran Journal, P.O. Box 4201, Fullerton, CA 92634, USA
   fax: [phone]

ICHOR, 27 rue Linne, F-75005 Paris, France
   tel: [phone]

ISO, 1 rue de Varembe, Case postale 56, CH-1211 Geneve 20, Switzerland
   fax: [phone]

IT Independent Training Limited, 113 Liscombe, Birch Hill, Bracknell,
   Berkshire, RG12 7DE, UK
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone]


Microway, Research Park, Box 79, Kingston, MA 02364, USA
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone]

NA Software Ltd, Roscoe House, 62 Roscoe St., Liverpool L1 9DW, UK
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone], [e-mail]

NAG Ltd., Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford, OX2 8DR, UK
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone], [e-mail]
   http://www.nag.co.uk:70/intro
NAG Inc., 1400 Opus Place, Suite 200, Downers Grove, IL 60515-5702, USA
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone], [e-mail]
NAG GmbH., Schleissheimerstr. 5, D-85748 Garching, Germany
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone]

NAG Users Association, PO Box 426, Oxford, OX2 8SD, UK
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone], [e-mail]

Pacific-Sierra Research Corp., 2901 28th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone], [e-mail]

ParaSoft Corporation, 2500 E. Foothill Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107, USA
   tel: [phone], [e-mail]

Quetzal Computational Associates, 3200 Carlisle N.E., Albuquerque,
   NM 87110-1664, USA
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone], [e-mail]

Simulog, 1 rue James Joule, F-78286 Guyancourt Cedex, France
   (Mr. E. Plestan)
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone]

Spackman & Hendrickson, Inc., 13708 Krestwood Drive, Burnsville,
   MN 55337,  USA
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone]

Unicom Seminars Ltd., Brunel Science Park, Cleveland Road, Uxbridge,
   Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone]

Unicomp, Inc., 1123 Marigold Drive, Albuquerque, NM 87122, USA
   tel: [phone], fax: [phone], [e-mail]

I am always pleased to receive informations.
Thanks to all those who sent some to me, and that I can not cite
all because I lost some of their names and addresses :-)


Michel

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