Modern Fortran Explained : Incorporating Fortran 2018

Written by leading experts in the field, two of whom have actively contributed to Fortran 2018, Modern Fortran Explained is a complete and authoritative description of Fortran in its latest form

Michael Metcalf, Formerly of CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, John Reid, Numerical Analyst, JKR Associates, Oxfordshire, Malcolm Cohen, Principal technical consultant, The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd, Oxford, U.K.

Michael Metcalf worked for many years at CERN. He is the author or co-author of a range of publications, including forerunners to the present volume, as well as Effective FORTRAN 77 (OUP NY, 1985) and a number of contributions to technical encyclopaedias

John Reid is well-known as a numerical analyst and is a co-author of Direct Methods for Sparse Matrices (OUP, 2017). He is the Convenor of the ISO Fortran Committee and has played a leading role in the development of many of the features of modern Fortran, especially of coarrays.

Malcolm Cohen is a mathematician and the leading compiler writer at NAG. He has participated actively in the development of the Fortran standards, being a major designer of the objected-oriented features. He is the Editor of the Fortran 2008 standard.