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This guide provides a comprehensive description of the features and implementation of Fortran 77. Ideal as a text from which to learn a second language, or as a reference guide to a first or main language.
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Professional Programmer’s Guide to Fortran77 Clive G. Page, University of Leicester, UK 7th June 2005 c Copyright 1988 - 2005 Clive G. Page Last update/bug fix: 2005 June 5. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”. This file contains the text of Professional Programmer’s Guide to Fortran77 published by Pitman in 1988. The book is now long out of print, so it seemed sensible to make the text freely available over the Internet. The ISO Standard for Fortran77 is, of course, now obsolete, since Fortran90 and Fortran95 have replaced it. I strongly recommend using Fortran95 as a multitude of features have been added to Fortran which make programming easier and programs more reliable. One of the attractions of Fortran77 is that a good free compiler exists in the form of GNU Fortran, g77. At present I don’t know of any free compilers for full Fortran95, but you can download a compiler for a subset language called F, which seems an excellent way to learn modern Fortran. Unfortunately this book will not be much help with F or Fortran95. Perhaps some day I may get time to revise it completely. For more information on Fortran (and F) see these web-sites, which have links to many others: http://www.star.le.ac.uk/˜cgp My home page http://www.fortran.com/ Fortran Market and F home page http://www.ifremer.fr/ditigo/ Excellent FAQ mol