Standardized array processing: Fortran 90

By the mid 80s SIMD and vector computers looked well-established. The Fortran 8X committee saw a need to make array assignments standard language features.

Fortran 90 (as it eventually became) added many new features to support modern software engineering. It also added new “array syntax”, including array assignments, array sections, transformational intrinsics.

By the mid 80s SIMD and vector computers looked well-established. The Fortran 8X committee saw a need to make array assignments standard language features.