Fortran 95/2003 Explained

• The only complete and authoritative description of the new standard Fortran 2003
• Clear programming style
• Detailed and extensive index
• Aimed at students and professional programmers, physical scientists, mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists
• Numerous examples, exercises and solutions
• Authored by the leading experts in the development of the language

New to this edition

• The complete and only authoritative description of the new standard Fortran 2003. All obsolete material has been removed.

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students, professional programmers, physical scientists, mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists.

Michael Metcalf, Formerly of the Information Technology Division CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, John Reid, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford, and Malcolm Cohen, Numerical Algorithm Group, Oxford

"Readers who are familiar with Fortran 90/95 Explained by Michael Malcolm and John Reid will be pleased to add Fortran 95/2003 Explained, with the welcome addition of Malcolm Cohen as co-author, to their libraries. As with the previous work, this is a model of clear exposition ... Practitioners will be happy to have this important new book." - ACM Fortran Forum

Whence Fortran?
Language elements
Expressions and assignments
Control Constructs
Program units and procedures
Array features
Specification statements
Intrinsic procedures
Data transfers
Operations on external files
Floating-point exception handling
Allocatable array extensions
Enhanced module facilities
Interoperability with C
Type parameters and procedure pointers
Object-oriented programing
Establishing and moving data
Miscellaneous enhancements
Input/output enhancements
Other features
A: Intrinsic procedures
B: Obsolescent features
C: Pointer example
D: Avoiding compilation cascades
E: Fortran terms
F: Solutions to exercises
Index