Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > F90/F95 is scary, isn't it...
> F77 wasn't that big a change from FORTRAN-IV (F66) (hmmm, we're due > for another standard, aren't we? 1966, 1977, 1990 [95 was a tweak]...) Fortran 2003 is the latest standard -- see http://www.fortran.com/fortran/fcd_announce.html "The major additions are Object-Oriented Programming and Interoperability with C [...]. Minor additions include procedure pointers, finalization of derived-type objects, parameterized derived types, pointer rank remapping (allows viewing one-dimensional arrays as higher-dimensional arrays), enumerations, the ASSOCIATE construct (similar to Pascal's WITH), transferring an allocation (generalization of the frequently-requested reallocate capability), VOLATILE attribute, access to the command line and environment variables, standard named constants for "*" input and output units, access to message text for input/output and other errors, access to features of the IEEE floating-point arithmetic standard, longer names and statements, generalization of expressions for array dimensions and initial values, user-defined derived-type input/output, asynchronous input/output, and stream input/output--and this list is not exhaustive." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
