Fortran Information

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• Newsgroups
• Standards Documents
• Wiki for Fortran
• The SIGPLAN Fortran Forum
• Open Directory section on Fortran
• The Story of Fortran, interviews with the members of the orginial development team at IBM.
• Original IBM Fortran manual. This is the original IBM manual for the 704 computer.
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • An auxiliary Fortran FAQ maintained by Michel Olagnon of IFREMER as part of the comp-fortran90 discussion group (see below).
• A list of useful information about Fortran 90 maintained by Mike Metcalf of CERN
• A discussion group for exchanging information about Fortran 90/95.
• Co-array Fortran (formerly F--) a notation for data decomposition, such as used in message passing models.
• OpenMP a simple, flexible interface for developing parallel applications on shared memory systems.
• The Fortran Library contains information and pointers to lots of information about Fortran.
• Brian Meek's perspective on the politics of developing Fortran 90.
• Information about object-oriented programming in Fortran.
• The Center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice University
• There is a lot of information about Fortran available from The Numerical Algortihms Group Ltd and some free software, too.
• Tutorials
• Dan Fuka and John Prentice have run the famous Quetzal benchmarks on three PC compilers.
• STREAMS benchmarks, originally developed by John McCalpin
• Some sample pages from the first IBM Fortran manual: Fortran Programmer's Reference Manual.
• The article about the infamous COME FROM statement.