FORTRAN is widely viewed as the programming language of choice for scientific and numerical computations. However, limitations of the language lead some to argue that it should be replaced by another language which better lends itself to the production of structured and maintainable code. We provide quantitative data relevant to this argument by reporting on a port of the NAS Kernels benchmark ...

In their current Fortran product CF77TM, Cray Research, Inc. has defined a Fortran based programming model for the Cray T3DTM system that allows programmers to specify both data sharing and work sharing. Analysis of this programming model identifies key language features to be retained and others that should be eliminated. Because future Fortran programming directions are based on CF90TM, this ...

The open source RFortran library is introduced as a convenient tool for accessing the functionality and packages of the R programming language from Fortran programs. It significantly enhances Fortran programming by providing a set of easy-to-use functions that enable access to R's very rapidly growing statistical, numerical and visualization capabilities, and support a richer and more interacti...

Co-array notation provides a compact syntax for programming parallel programs. Co-array Fortran (CAF) introduced and implements this notation, and CAF is currently proposed as an extension to the Fortran language standard. We believe that co-array notation requires a revised semantic definition beyond that specified by CAF for both pragmatic reasons within Fortran and to make the notation attra...

This article describes the software creation and development of the computer. Fortran 4 was chosen for scientific and technical problems. They named the language based on Fortran 4 language RTL (Fortranreal time language) treated the allocation of programs in the memory, different kinds of record commands in registers, and instruction structures in memory. It treated the principles of control u...

This manual describes version 1.6 of the programming language hepawk, designed for convenient scanning of data structures arising in the simulation of high energy physics events. The interpreter for this language has been implemented in FORTRAN-77, therefore hepawk runs on any machine with a FORTRAN-77 compiler. e-mail: [email protected]

REC (Regular Expression Compiler) is a concise programming language which allows students to write programs without knowledge of the complicated syntax of languages like FORTRAN and ALGOL. The language is recursive and contains only four elements for control. This paper describes an interpreter of REC written in FORTRAN.

In this paper, we present the first, preliminary results of HPF/Fortran-D language analysis based on compiling and running benchmark applications using a prototype implementation of HPF/Fortran-D compiler. The analysis indicate that the HPF is a very convenient tool for programming many applications on massively parallel and/or distributed systems. In addition, we cumulate experience on how to ...

Programming computers is a complex and constantly evolving activity. Technological innovations have consistently increased the speed and complexity of computers, making programming them more difficult. To ease the programming burden, computer languages have been developed. A programming language employs syntactic forms that express the concepts of the language. Programming language concepts hav...

Transformational re nement in the context of this talk refers to the automatic transformation of a speci cation expressed in a functional programming language typically SML LISP or Miranda to an e cient implementation expressed in an imperative programming language typically FORTRAN or one of its parallel derivitives In particular our work focuses on the derivation of e cient numerical mathemat...