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Fortran 90 New features

Fortran 90 supports,

  1. free source form;
  2. array syntax and many more (array) intrinsics;
  3. dynamic storage and pointers;
  4. portable data types (KIND s);
  5. derived data types and operators;
  6. recursion;
  7. MODULE s

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Adam Marshall ©University of Liverpool, 1996
Fri Dec 6 18:56:08 GMT 1996
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