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Foil 47 What is Fortran 90?

From GCF Talk U - Lewis/NASA 3/9/92 Mardi Gras Conference on Concurrent Computing in Physical Sciences -- February 18, 1993. by Geoffrey C. Fox
FORTRAN 77 entirely contained within Fortran 90
Language goal is to "modernize Fortran, so that it may continue its long history as a scientific and engineering programming language"
Major language additions include:
  • array operations
  • numeric computation facilities
  • parameterized intrinsic data types
  • modularzation of data and procedures
  • pointer facilities
  • many more intrinsic functions
A significantly larger language than FORTRAN 77

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