Modern Fortran Explained: Incorporating Fortran 2018 [Hardcover]

Written by leading experts in the field, two of whom have actively contributed to Fortran 2018,Modern Fortran Explainedis a complete and authoritative description of Fortran in its latest formFortran marches on, remaining one of the principal programming languages used in high-performance scientific, numerical, and engineering computing. A series of significant revisions to the standard versions of the language have progressively enhanced its capabilities, and the latest standard - Fortran 2018 - includes many additions and improvements.This edition ofModern Fortran Explainedexpands on the last. Given the release of updated versions of Fortran compilers, the separate descriptions of Fortran 2003 and Fortran 2008 have been incorporated into the main text, which thereby becomes a unified description of the full Fortran 2008 version of the language. This clearer standard has allowed many deficiencies and irregularities in the earlier language versions to be resolved.Four new chapters describe the additional features of Fortran 2018, with its enhancements to coarrays for parallel programming, interoperability with C, IEEE arithmetic, and various other improvements.Written by leading experts in the field, two of whom have actively contributed to Fortran 2018, this is a complete and authoritative description of Fortran in its latest form. It is intended for new and existing users of the language, and for all those involved in scientific and numerical computing. It is suitable as a textbook for teaching and, with its index, as a handy reference for practitioners.1. Whence Fortran?2. Language elements3. Expressions and assignments4. Control constructs5. Program units and procedures6. Allocation of data7. Array features8. Specification statements9. Intrinsic procedures and modules10. Data transfer11. Edit descriptors12. Operations on external files13. Advanced type parameter features14. Procedure pointers15. Object-oriented programming16. Submodules17. Coarl³"