The Fortran 2003 Handbook is a definitive and comprehensive guide to Fortran 2003 and its use. Fortran 2003, the latest standard version of Fortran, has many excellent features that assist the programmer in writing efficient, portable and maintainable programs. This all-inclusive volume offers a reader-friendly, easy-to-follow and informal description of Fortran 2003, and has been developed to provide not only a readable explanation of features, but also some rationale for the inclusion of features and their use. This highly versatile handbook is intended for anyone who wants a comprehensive survey of Fortran 2003.

Table of Contents

Preface.- Introduction.- Fortran Concepts and Terms.- Language Elements and Source Form.- Data Types.- Declarations.- Using Data.- Expressions and Assignment.- Block Constructs and Execution Control.- Input and Output Processing.- Input and Output Editing.- Program Units.- Using Procedures.- Intrinsic Procedures and Modules.- IEEE Exceptions and Arithmetic.- Interoperability with C.- Scope, Association, and Definition.- A: Standard Intrinsic Procedures.- B: IEEE Module Procedures.- C: Language Evolution.- Index.- Index of Examples.

Reviews

From the reviews: "It is a comprehensive treatise of the language that complements the latest incarnation of the Fortran standard. ! It is particularly remarkable to see how much Fortran has changed over the years, while maintaining compatibility with earlier versions. ! The book does a good job of explaining all these in depth, meriting it a place on serious Fortran developers' bookshelves. It will also help non-Fortran developers who want to understand and read Fortran programs ! ." (Panagiotis Louridas, ACM Computing Reviews, June, 2009)