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The Fortran Wiki is an open venue for discussing all aspects of the Fortran programming language and scientific computing. See the mission statement for more details.

You can edit this website using the Edit Page link at the bottom of each page. Feel free to use the Sandbox to experiment. The HowTo contains more information on getting started. For questions, see Fortran Wiki discussion.

• News - news and updates about the wiki and the Fortran Community.
• HowTo - how you can contribute to the Fortran Wiki
• Code - upload and download Fortran code
• FAQ - frequently asked questions about Fortran

Fortran Programming

• General programming methods and concepts: Data structures, Object-oriented programming, Design Patterns, Generic programming, Parallelization, recursion.
• More-specific tasks: String tokenization, Stream Input Output, Generating C Interfaces, Modernizing Old Fortran.
• Interoperability with other languages: C, Python, and Tcl.
• Object-oriented programming2
• Object based programming
• GUI Development

Fortran Language Reference

• Standards: FORTRAN 77, Fortran 90, Fortran 95, Fortran 2003, Fortran 2008
• Language features: Intrinsic procedures, Intrinsic types, Keywords, Arithmetic, Edit descriptors, Continuation lines, OS integration.
• Source conventions
• Fortran History
• Feature Proposals

Fortran Resources

• Articles, Books, and Tutorials for learning Fortran.
• Journals: Fortran Forum
• Compilers and other Tools for Fortran programming: Source code editors, Automatic documentation, Debugging tools, Preprocessors, Unit testing frameworks, and more.
• Libraries and Applications written in Fortran.
• Software repositories
• Useful External Links
• Fortran Courses

Fortran Community

• Users - Fortran Wiki user pages, including yours.
• comp.lang.fortran - a very active Usenet newsgroup read by many Fortran experts.
• Email lists
• Questions - Looking for something else? Ask here.
• Discussion - discussion pages on the Fortran Wiki
• Blogs - blogs that include content related to Fortran.
• IRC - the #fortran channel on Freenode
• Dialects - languages related to Fortran
• Contributing - ways to support Fortran
• Fortran Myths and Humor (maybe)