Offering a clear tutorial guide for the new Fortran 90 language, this book highlights Fortran 90's role as a powerful tool for problem-solving in engineering and science. Having been involved in the development of the new standard, the authors provide (as a bonus) an inside perspective on the design rationale behind the major features of Fortran 90.

Features

• comprehensive coverage of all the major language features, with clear guidelines on the differences between the 77 and 90 standards
• case studies illustrating its applications in scientific problem-solving
• two authoritative chapters in coding numerical methods in Fortran 90
• an early introduction to procedures and modules to encourage a structural approach to programming

T.M.R. Ellis is Director of the Educational Technology Resources Centre at the University of Oxford. He has taught and written about Fortran for over 25 years, and was a member of both the ANSI and ISO committees responsible for developing the Fortran 90 and Fortran 95 standards. He is currently Convenor of the ISO Fortran Working Group which is responsible for all future development of Fortran.

Ivor R. Philips is a Senior Principal Mathematician at Boeing in Seattle, Washington. A specialist in numerical analysis, he has led a team of experts in creating the Boeing Fortran subprogram libraries, and was head of the US delegation to the ISO Fortran Working Group during the creation of Fortran 90.

Thomas M. Lahey runs his own company, Lahey Computer Systems, Inc., in Incline Valley, Nevada, which develops and markets Fortran compilers for the PC market, setting the standard by which other compilers are measured. He was responsible for the first FORTRAN 77 compiler available upon approval of the standard.