Fortran Wiki
2009

Since the Recently Revised page contains each and every edit, no matter how minor, news pages such as this one are intended to highlight major updates on this wiki as well as news about the Fortran community in general.

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2009-09-22

• Version 11.1.056 of the Intel Fortran compiler has been released.

2009-09-21

• Jason Blevins:

  • For convenience, I have added the Fortran 2003 and 2008 compiler support tables from the latest Fortran Forum to the wiki. See Fortran 2003 status and Fortran 2008 status.

2009-09-17

• Van Snyder reported today that the final committee draft of Fortran 2008 is available for public review. The draft is available at the following URLs:

  • http://j3-fortran.org/doc/meeting/190/09-007r3.pdf
  • ftp://ftp.nag.co.uk/sc22wg5/N1751-N1800/N1791.pdf

  Only editorial changes, or necessary technical changes, are permitted at this time. New features, or other such significant revisions are not permitted. See the original announcement for country-specific details on where to submit comments, and the deadlines for doing so.

2009-09-14

• Jason Blevins:

  • Added a new page on ways of Contributing to the Fortran community.
  • Added a few new Humor links.

2009-09-13

• Jason Blevins:

  • Added and answered a couple of questions in the FAQ (and added a table of contents).
  • Added the strnum program to illustrate using internal file IO to convert numeric values to strings and vice-versa.
  • Added a couple of items to the Humor page.

2009-07-13

• Jason Blevins:

  • Added Stats for June 2009.

2009-06-23

• Version 11.1 of the Intel Fortran compiler is now available. This release includes new Fortran 2003 object-oriented features (class, polymorphism, etc.), type-bound procedures, etc. —Jason Blevins

2009-06-13

• Jason Blevins:

  • Added a page for ROBODoc.

2009-06-03

• Upgraded to the latest development version of Instiki which supports page renames and redirects. Renaming a page can be done on via the ‘Edit Page’ link. Redirecting “Old Page” to “New Page” is accomplished by placing the code [[!redirects Old Page]] at the top of “New Page” (and real pages trump redirects).—Jason Blevins

2009-06-01

• Jason Blevins:

  • Added Stats for May 2009.

2009-05-19

• Jason Blevins:

  • Added a page for f90doc.

2009-05-14

• Jason Blevins:

  • Added gen_list, a Fortran 95 generic linked list.
  • Added a short history section to the Fortran Forum page.

2009-05-10

• Jason Blevins:

  • Created a Tools page for categorizing miscellaneous tools for Automatic documentation, Preprocessors, etc., and created new pages for Forpedo and f90tohtml.
  • Added a couple of Fortran Forum Articles.
  • Added an initial description of Generic programming with references and links to examples.
  • Started a list of selected threads on comp.lang.fortran.
  • New Code: internalproc and use_test.

2009-05-08

• The Internet Explorer javascript/cookie bug is now fixed. Apologies to everyone affected.—Jason Blevins

2009-05-07

• Jason Blevins:

  • New pages: Intel Fortran compiler and Fortran Forum.

2009-05-05

• Jason Blevins:

  • Started an OOP discussion page and generally refactored the Discussion pages a bit.
  • Added answers to some basic new user questions on the Fortran Wiki discussion page.
  • Added a page for FoX.
  • Added pages for LF Fortran, Sun Studio, and Open Watcom, EGTRAN, and ELF90.
  • Wrote a HowTo section on guidelines for external links.
  • Started File extensions.

2009-05-04

• Jason Blevins:

  • Started pages for LAPACK and F.

2009-05-03

• Jason Blevins:

  • Created Real precision.
  • Added some Humor.
  • I don’t think Callbacks are really Design patterns, so I’ve refactored these pages a bit. Defining Patterns, Architectural Patterns, and Design patterns is a bit tricky.
  • All source code posted to the wiki shall be in the public domain unless otherwise noted.
  • Attempted to succinctly define Fortran. Any help is appreciated.
  • Defined Inquiry function and linked all associated Intrinsic procedures of this class.

2009-05-02

• Jason Blevins:

  • Started new pages: FUnit, Netlib, Myths.
  • Created Pointers which, for now, just links to a new program pointer_example.
  • Created OpenMP with a simple parallel do example.

2009-05-01

• Fortran Wiki announcement on comp.lang.fortran—Jason Blevins

• Jason Blevins:

  • Added basic GFortran and G95 pages with links.
  • Added links to proposal documents for Submodules and Coarrays.
  • Added a page for Expokit with an example for dense real matrices.
  • New FAQ: How do I read a character without having to press enter?.
  • Added new entries to the HowTo: Downloading the Wiki, Referencing Books, Keyboard Shortcuts.

2009-04-30

• Jason Blevins:

  • Started Edit descriptors.
  • Created a separate page for Software repositories and began styling Libraries according to the type of license specified.
  • Added Bessel function, a summary of the Wikipedia page.

2009-04-29

• Jason Blevins:

  • Added How do I read until the end of a file (EOF)? to the FAQ with an example. Answer based on the recent EOF idiom? thread on clf.
  • Added pages for the iso_c_binding and iso_fortran_env modules.

2009-04-28

• Jason Blevins:

  • Created a new page on FLIBS.
  • Added the init_seed subroutine which was posted to comp.lang.fortran.
  • Added instructions for building static and shared libraries using gfortran to the FAQ.
  • Started Intrinsic data types based on the Wikipedia page.
  • Created a (hopefully) comprehensive list of Keywords.

2009-04-27

• I have implemented a couple of features to assist in sharing Fortran source code on the wiki. First, I have written a Fortran module for the Syntax Ruby library used on the wiki to perform syntax highlighting. Second, I have written a small Maruku extension to handle fenced code blocks of the kind used in Markdown Extra and Pandoc. This makes pasting code to the wiki much easier, as each line no longer needs to be indented. See the Code page for examples.—Jason Blevins

2009-04-26

• After a brief hiatus, the Fortran Wiki is back online. It is now running on Instiki and sharing server resources and a database with the xbeta wiki.—Jason Blevins

• Jason Blevins:

  • Imported the complete list of Fortran Intrinsic procedures from the GNU Fortran manual.