Modern Fortran Explained
The new edition of "Modern Fortran Explained" is out. This is the latest in the venerable series that provides an informal but mostly-definitive description of the Fortran standard (of course, the actual ISO standard is not that useful to anybody trying to learn the language, since it's very technical and almost entirely unreadable). The latest edition of Modern Fortran Explained incorporates the updates that will be included in the upcoming Fortran 2018 standard. I highly recommend this book. However, the authors chose to present the new stuff at the end of the book, rather than in the main text. This is somewhat unfortunate. For example, the do concurrent construct description begins on p 137. However, additional features added in Fortran 2008 and 2018 are not described or even mentioned in this section, for that you have to flip to p 435. So, all the information is there, but the organization could be improved to be of more use for beginners.
See also
- M. Metcalf, J. Reid, and M. Cohen, Modern Fortran Explained: Incorporating Fortran 2018, Fifth Edition, Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Modern Fortran References, July 6, 2014 [previous post]