Fortran Standardization Activities 1977 - 2016

October 2016

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.

UK Report on FORTRAN developments, November 1977 - 134 KB PDF file (January 1978)
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 2001 (May 2001)
WG5 Fortran Convenor's Report 2002 (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 2003 (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 2004 (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)
Coarrays for parallel programming - 15KB PDF file (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 - 25 KB PDF file (June 2006)
The new features of Fortran 2003 - 483 KB PDF file (January 2007)
What will be in Fortran 2008 - 12KB PDF file (January 2007)
Support for Fortran Standards Development 2007 (June 2007)
Discussion of the draft of the next Fortran standard (June 2007)
WG5 Meeting London (August 2007)
Support for Fortran Standards Development 2008 (June 2008)
The new features of Fortran 2008 - 17 KB PDF file (June 2008)
Discussion of the Committee Draft of the next Fortran standard (June 2008)
Support for Fortran Standards Development 2009 (June 2009)
Changes made to the draft Fortran 2008 standard since June 2008 - 10 KB PDF file (June 2009)
Report from the Convener on WG5 activities - 9 KB PDF file (June 2009)
Discussion on the UK Position on Fortran 2008 (June 2009)
Support for Fortran Standards Development 2010 (September 2010)
Technical Report on further interoperability with C and Report from the Convener on WG5 activities - 17 KB PDF file (September 2010)
Support for Fortran Standards Development 2011 (September 2011)
Draft Technical Report on further interoperability with C - 13 KB PDF file (September 2011)
Language Vulnerabilities Report: The Fortran Annex - 224 KB PDF file (September 2011)
Further coarray features for parallel computing - 14 KB PDF file (September 2011)
Support for Fortran Standards Development 2012 (September 2012)
Further coarray features - 66 KB PDF file (September 2012))
Fortran addendum to the TR on Vulnerabilities in Programming Languages - 190 KB PDF file (September 2012)
Other news from WG5 - 48 KB PDF file (September 2012)
The role of mathematical equivalence in Fortran - 260 KB PDF file (September 2012)
Developments in the standardization process - 62 KB PDF file (September 2012)
Support for Fortran Standards Development 2013 - 64 KB PDF file (September 2013)
Further coarray features - 119 KB PDF file (September 2013))
Removing simple deficiencies in Fortran - 168 KB PDF file (September 2013)
Support for Fortran Standards Development 2014 - 64 KB PDF file (October 2014)
Support for Fortran Standards Development 2015 - 68 KB PDF file (October 2015)
Further coarray features in Fortran 2015 - 523 KB PDF file (October 2015)
Further interoperability features in Fortran 2015 - 315 KB PDF file (October 2015)
Removing simple deficiencies in Fortran 2015 - 184 KB PDF file (October 2015)
Support for Fortran Standards Development 2016 - 19 KB PDF file (September 2016)
Fortran 2015 - 334 KB PDF file (September 2016)

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