Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 21 Sept 1995

Foil 4 Fortran90 extends Fortran77 -- A summary of new features:

From New CPS615 Foils-- 28 August 95 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Nancy McCracken and Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Array operations
2 Pointers
3 Improved facilities for numerical computation including a set of numeric inquiry functions
4 Parameterization of the intrinsic types, to permit processors to support short integers, very large character sets, etc.
5 User-defined derived data types composed of arbitrary data structures and operations on those structures.
6 Modules, for global data definitions and procedure libraries.
7 Source form, more appropriate for the terminal
8 New control constructs, forms of CASE and DO
9 Recursive procedures
10 Optional and keyword arguments
11 Dynamic storage allocation
12 Improved 1/0facilities
13 Additional intrinsic procedures
14 Evolution of the language by labelling some features "obsolescent"

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