Professional programmer’s guide to Fortran 77

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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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Table of contents :
Standardization……Page 7
Strengths and Weaknesses……Page 8
Precautions……Page 9
Statements……Page 10
Expressions and Assignments……Page 11
Integer and Real Data Types……Page 12
DO Loops……Page 13
Functions……Page 14
IF-blocks……Page 15
Arrays……Page 16
The Fortran System……Page 18
Creating the Source Code……Page 19
Compiling……Page 20
Program Development……Page 21
Program Structure and Layout……Page 23
The Fortran Character Set……Page 24
Statements and Lines……Page 25
Program Units……Page 27
Statement Types and Order……Page 28
Symbolic Names……Page 29
Constants, Variables, and Arrays……Page 30
Data Types……Page 31
Constants……Page 34
Specifying Data Type……Page 36
Named Constants……Page 38
Arrays……Page 40
Arithmetic Expressions……Page 43
Arithmetic Intrinsic Functions……Page 47
Character Facilities……Page 50
Character Substrings……Page 51
Character Expressions……Page 52
Character Intrinsic Functions……Page 53
Relational Expressions……Page 54
Logical Expressions……Page 57
IF-Blocks……Page 59
DO-Loops……Page 61
Logical-IF Statement……Page 63
Computed GO TO Statement……Page 64
Procedures……Page 65
Statement Functions……Page 66
External Procedures……Page 68
Arguments of External Procedures……Page 71
Variables as Dummy Arguments……Page 72
Arrays as Arguments……Page 74
Procedures as Arguments……Page 77
RETURN Statement……Page 79
FUNCTION Statement……Page 80
SAVE Statement……Page 81
EXTERNAL and INTRINSIC Statements……Page 82
Files, I/O Units, and Records……Page 83
External Files……Page 85
Internal Files……Page 88
Pre-Connected Files……Page 89
Error and End-Of-File Conditions……Page 90
Format Specifications……Page 91
Format Data Descriptors A, E, F, G, I, L……Page 93
Format Control Descriptors……Page 96
List-Directed Formatting……Page 98
Carriage-Control and Printing……Page 99
Input/Output Statements and Keywords……Page 100
OPEN Statement……Page 101
INQUIRE Statement……Page 102
READ and WRITE Statements……Page 104
REWIND and BACKSPACE Statements……Page 106
Defined and Undefined Values……Page 107
Initialising Arrays……Page 108
DATA Statements in Procedures……Page 109
General Rules……Page 110
Using Common Blocks……Page 111
Blank Common Blocks……Page 114
BLOCK DATA Program Units……Page 115
Obsolete and Deprecated Features……Page 116
PAUSE Statement……Page 117
EQUIVALENCE Statement……Page 118
PRINT Statement and simplified READ……Page 119
Common Extensions to the Fortran Standard……Page 120
List of Intrinsic Functions……Page 121
PREAMBLE……Page 123
APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS……Page 124
MODIFICATIONS……Page 125
AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS……Page 127
Acknowkedgements……Page 128