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UK requirements for next revision of the Fortran language

11.00 a.m. Thursday 10th March, 2005
BCS London Office,
First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA

(nearest Underground stations: Charing Cross, Covent Garden,
Embankment and Leicester Square)

P R O G R A M M E

10.30 Coffee
11.00 Welcome and Introduction
    Peter Crouch, Chairman, BCS Fortran Specialist Group
11.10 UK Requirements for Fortran 2003+
  - Open forum - proposal of further new items
  - Discussion on UK requirements
12.30 Lunch
 
13.30 Wrap-up session. Final recommendations for UK submissions
 
15.00 - 15.15 Tea break (if required)
 
16.30 Close

Supporting Documents

  Celebrating 50 Years of Fortran
  Fortran: A few historical details
  A Personal History of the NAGWare Fortran compiler
  by Malcolm Cohen, Principal Technical Consultant, Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd
  Overview of new features in Fortran 2003 (101KB PDF file)
  prepared by John Reid, Convenor, ISO Fortran Working Group
  Requirements for Fortran 2003+: Procedures and Progress (HTML files or 104KB MS PowerPoint file)
  prepared by David Muxworthy, BSI Fortran Convenor
 
  New Requirement Suggestions
  Pointer function references as actual arguments
see also Recent submission for consideration from UK (1)
  Pointer function references as lhs in assignment
see also Recent submission for consideration from UK (2)
  Multiple Nonzero-Rank Part References
  The ADDRESS attribute
  TYPEDEF facility
  Long integer data type
  Co-arrays for parallel programming
  Partial initialisation of PARAMETERs
  Use procedureness in generic resolution
 
  Final Requirements, April 2005
  Final UK Requirements (62KB text file)
  WG5 Repository of Requirements (158KB text file)


Participation

Short presentations (10-15 minutes) on ideas for developing Fortran were invited. Such ideas should preferably not duplicate items already under consideration (see the factsheet).

It is still possible to propose requirements or amendements for consideration by WG5 at its next meeting in February 2006. The deadline for submissions to the BSI Fortran Panel via its Convenor David Muxworthy is Friday 16 December 2005.


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