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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Michael Metcalf worked for many years at CERN. He is the author or co-author of a range of publications! including forerunners to the present volume! as well as Effective FORTRAN 77 (Oxford University Press) and FORTRAN Optimization (Academic Press)! and a number of contributions to technical encyclopaedias.John Reid is well-known as a numerical analyst and is a co-author of Direct Methods for Sparse Matrices (Oxford University Press). He is the Convenor of the ISO Fortran Committee and has played a leading role in the development of many of the features of modern Fortran! especially of coarrays.Malcolm Cohen is a mathematician and the leading compiler writer at NAG. He has participated actively in the development of the Fortran standards! being a major designer of the objected-oriented features. He is the Editor of the Fortran 2008 standard. Klappentext A clear and thorough description of the latest versions of Fortran by leading experts in the field. 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 as a handy reference for practitioners. Zusammenfassung A clear and thorough description of the latest versions of Fortran by leading experts in the field. 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 as a handy reference for practitioners. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Whence Fortran? ; 2. Language elements ; 3. Expressions and assignments ; 4. Control constructs ; 5. Program units and procedures ; 6. Array features ; 7. Specification statements ; 8. Intrinsic procedures ; 9. Data transfer ; 10. Operations on external files ; 11. Floating-point exception handling ; 12. Interoperability with C ; 13. Type parameters and procedure pointers ; 14. Object-orientated programming ; 15. Establishing and moving data ; 16. Miscellaneous enhancements ; 17. Input/output enhancements ; 18. Enhanced module facilities ; 19. Coarrays ; 20. Other Fortran 2008 enhancements ...