Fortran Standardization Activities

Members of the Group have been actively involved in updating the standards for the Fortran language for many years. The following reports are available from this site, they contain links to other UK and international Fortran resources.

• Fortran Standardization (February 1996)
  
  
• Progress with Fortran 2000 (April 1998)
  
  
• Report to BCS Technical Board (December 1999)
  
  
• Standardization Update (April 2000)
  
  
• ISO Fortran Convenor's Report (May 2000)
  
  
• WG5 Fortran Convenor's Report (May 2001)
  
  
• WG5 Fortran Convenor's Report (May 2002)
  
  
• Interoperability with C in Fortran 2000 (May 2002)
  
  
• Report on WG5/J3 meeting, Las Vegas (August 2002)
  
  
• Fortran 2000 Forum, London (October 2002)
  
  
• SG Development Fund report on FSG Project on Development of Fortran 2000 (April 2003)
  
  
• WG5 Fortran Convenor's Report (May 2003)
  
  
• How to propose requirements for the next revision of the Fortran language (March 2004)
  
  
• SG Development Fund Project: Support for Fortran 2003 Development (April 2004)
  
  
• WG5 Fortran Convenor's Report (May 2004)
  
  
• The Future for Fortran (May 2004)
  
  
• Notes of UK requirements meeting (March 2005)
  
  
• SG Development Fund Project: Support for Fortran Standards Development
  Progress Report June 2005 (May 2005)
  
  
• Co-arrays for parallel programming (June 2005)
  
  
• Parameterized modules, BITS and other possible features (June 2005)
  
  
• SG Development Fund Project: Support for Fortran Standards Development
  Progress Report June 2006 (May 2006)
  
  
• The language features that have been chosen for Fortran 2008 (June 2006)
  
  
• The new features of Fortran 2003 (January 2007)
  
  
• What will be in Fortran 2008 (January 2007)
  
  
• Support for Fortran Standards Development (June 2007)
  
  
• Discussion of the draft of the next Fortran standard (June 2007)
  
  
• WG5 Meeting London (August 2007)
  
  
• Support for Fortran Standards Development (June 2008)
  
  
• Discussion of the Committee Draft of the next Fortran standard (June 2008)

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