JTC1/SC22/WG5

ISO/IEC 1539-1:2010

(Information technology - Programming languages - Fortran)

Fortran 2008 (which is Part 1 of the multi-part Fortran Standard) is an enhancement of Fortran 2003.

It incorporates the extension defined by the Technical Report:

ISO/IEC TR 19767:2005(E) Enhanced module facilities

whose final draft is visible as N1602. This was written as a Technical Report because the feature was deemed too important to wait for the next revision of the Standard.

It also incorporates all the corrections in the corrigenda to Fortran 2003, which are detailed in N1823.

The most important new features is:

Parallel programming support: SPMD parallel programming using coarrays for data exchange

An unofficial summary of this feature is available as N1824.

In addition, there are a considerable number of minor technical enhancements. An unofficial summary of these enhancements is available as N1828.

The FDIS version of the Fortran 2008 Standard is in N1830.

Two extensions of Fortran 2008 are planned to be defined by the Technical Reports:

ISO/IEC TR 29113 on "Further Interoperability of Fortran with C"

whose current draft is visible as N1838 and

ISO/IEC TR on "Further Coarray Features"

These are being written as a Technical Reports because the feature are deemed too important to wait for the next revision of the Standard.

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2011-01-17