Modern Fortran Explained

Modern Fortran Explained does an admirable job of detailing the cutting edge developments surrounding this legendary program language, over the last 20 years. An appreciated feature of the text is the beautifully woven narrative which presents Fortran from its foundations to its most complex structures. * Kymani Armstrong-Williams, Physics Book Reviewer *

Michael Metcalf studied physics at University College London and worked at CERN for 32 years on high-energy physics experiments. He was a group leader and senior scientist. Involved in Fortran standardization for seven years, he wrote books and lectured extensively on the topic. He is now retired and resides in Berlin.

John Reid read mathematics at Oxford University and lectured at Sussex University for five years. He then joined the numerical analysis group at Harwell, later moving to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He wrote Fortran programs for the HSL Library and focused his research on direct methods for sparse matrices. He participated in Fortran standardization since 1983 and convened the ISO committee from 2000 to 2017. He is currently an Honorary Scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and continues to participate in Fortran standardization.

Malcolm Cohen studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the Australian National University and worked as a programmer for three years. He joined the Numerical Algorithms Group in 1984, working on Fortran Software Tools. After a year in Iceland, he rejoined NAG in 1988. He has been a member of the ISO/IEC Working Group on Fortran since 1988 and wrote the world’s first Fortran 90 compiler, released in September 1991. He has been the Editor of the ISO/IEC Fortran standard since 2005, responsible for Fortran 2008, Fortran 2018, and Fortran 2023. He was seconded to NAG’s Tokyo office in 2006 and currently resides in Japan.

Reinhold Bader studied physics at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and completed a PhD in solid state physics in 1998. He became a scientific staff member at LRZ in 1999 and group leader of the HPC systems and services in 2012. Since 2000, he has developed course material for Fortran and other HPC topics and has been involved with Fortran standardization in the context of WG5 since 2008. He is now a DIN representative (through LRZ) since 2013.