Fortran for C Programmers: A Quick Start Guide
2025-05-18
This concise guide provides essential information for C/C++ programmers to quickly get started with Fortran. It covers key aspects of the language, including its two source forms (fixed-form and free-form), implicit typing rules, built-in functions, modular programming, and input/output operations. The guide highlights differences between Fortran and C/C++ in data types, arrays, pointers, and function calls, and points out potential pitfalls, such as operator precedence and short-circuiting evaluation. This is a great starting point for C/C++ programmers interested in learning Fortran.
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