From gehrke@rrzn.uni-hannover.de Mon Sep 2 09:07:20 1996 Received: from mgate.uni-hannover.de (mgate.uni-hannover.de [130.75.2.3]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA22711 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:07:11 +0200 Received: from sun204w.rrzn-nis.uni-hannover.de (actually sun204w) by mgate with SMTP (PP); Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:06:52 +0200 Received: by sun204w.rrzn-nis.uni-hannover.de (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA00386; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:06:36 +0200 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:06:36 +0200 From: gehrke@rrzn.uni-hannover.de (Wilhelm Gehrke) Message-Id: <199609020706.JAA00386@sun204w.rrzn-nis.uni-hannover.de> To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: 2nd book on Fortran 95 X-Mailer: [XMailTool v3.1.2b] The second book on Fortran 95 is available ------------------------------------------ "Fortran 95 Language Guide" by Wilhelm Gehrke, Springer, London, 1996, 410 pages, Softcover, ISBN 3-540-76062-8 Fortran 95 is the name of the next international standard of the Fortran programming language. Standard Fortran 95 is not an entirely new language but a relatively minor evolution of Fortran 90. The major new language features in Fortran 95 are: - FORALL statement and construct, - Pure and elemental user-defined subprograms, - Implicit initialization of derived type objects, and - Initial association status for pointers. The minor new language features in Fortran 95 are: - Comments in namelist input data, - Minimal output field width for formatted numeric output, - Intrinsic SIGN function may distinguish -0 and +0, - New intrinsic function CPU_TIME returns processor time, - New intrinsic function NULL returns disconnected pointer, - References to certain pure functions in specification expressions, - Nested WHERE constructs and masked ELSEWHERE statements, - Modifications to intrinsic functions CEILING, FLOOR, MAXLOC, and MINLOC, - Automatic deallocation of allocatable arrays, and - Generic identifier in END INTERFACE statement. This "Fortran 95 Language Guide" is a comprehensive and easy-to-understand description of the Fortran 95 language as defined in the final draft which is ready to be accepted by ISO. Most of the new features and the large number of minor modifications and corrections of defects to Fortran 90 are scattered throughout the language such that it was necessary to prepare this "Fortran 95 Language Guide" as a completely revised edition of the "Fortran 90 Language Guide". The "Fortran 95 Language Guide" is intended to serve as a language reference manual for the novice as well as for the experienced programmer, as teaching material for courses in Fortran programming, and as a help during migration to Fortran 95. Wilhelm Gehrke works at the RRZN (Regional Computing Centre, University of Hannover, Germany). He is the author of many publications and documentations related to Fortran, including handbooks on Standard FORTRAN 77, FORTRAN for PCs, and Standard Fortran 90. Additional material on Fortran 95: Railroad diagrams: http://www.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/Umdrucke/SPR.F95.3.ps English-German list of technical terms: http://www.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/Umdrucke/SPR.F95.2.ps