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A brief overview of the Fortran 8x language is given and then the array features are described in a little more detail. It is explained that these features provide the possibility for exploitation of whatever parallel hardware is available. An example is given, illustrating the comparison with Fortran 77. Also discussed is DAP Fortran, which is a language that has been available for many years and that provided the experience upon which several of the array features of Fortran 8x were based.
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M. Metcalf and J.K. Reid. Fortran 8x Explained, revised edition. Oxford University Press (to appear).
J.K. Reid and A. Wilson, A. The array features in Fortran 8x with examples of their use. Computer Physics Communications, 37: 125–132, 1985.
AMT. Introduction to FORTRAN-PLUS programming. Vendor’s manual, AMT, 1989.
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Reid, J.K. (1990). Fortran 8X features and the exploitation of parallelism. In: Mason, J.C., Cox, M.G. (eds) Scientific Software Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0841-3_7
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