12 Oct
2025
12 Oct
'25
10:17 p.m.
On Sun, 2025-10-12 at 12:04 -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2025, Christopher Zach via cctalk
wrote:
There was no Fortran 2011. Standards since 1990 have been 95, 2003,
2008, 2018, and 2023. The next revision is under development. I have
PDF for all standards, including 66 and 77. Ask if you want one.
Array processing was added in 1990.
Object Oriented was added in 2003.
A very simple method for SPMD parallel programming (much simpler than
PVM or MPI) called coarrays was added in 2008.
2018 and 2023 were minor revisions.
The next revision will include templates.
* Fortran 11 reference manual (unsure of title)
Or I might possibly have missed out on a revised standard in 2011, which
would, indeed, be "Fortran 11" (two digit year, for early start creating
Y3K?)
"WATFOR", later "WATF-IV"
(WATerloo FORTRAN IV" (NOT "FIVE")), FORTRAN
variant, with fascinating extensions, from WATerloo University.
(I used it a bit on 360, around 1970, at George Washington University)
Univac 1108 came with FORTRAN V, with many useful extensions such as
internal procedures. Jack Perrine's competing Athena FORTRAN V included
macros.
Grumpy Ol' Fred
cisin(a)xenosoft.com
Van, US and ISO Fortran committees 1997-2020. Emeritus member now.