> Thanks for that, Drew. What are the arguments for moving from Fortran
> 77 all the way to Fortran 95, rather than Fortran 90? My Absoft
> compiler lumps Fortran 90 and 95 together in many ways, but there must
> be some significant differences.

Compared to F90, F95:

** Allows default initialization of components of derived types.

** Provides the [null] instrinsic for initializing pointers.

** Allows a field width of 0 when writing output with some of the edit
descriptors (this writes the shortest possible output).

** Adds the [forall] construct.

** Extends the [where] construct.

** Adds the [pure] and [elemental] keywords for procedures.

** Allows the use of intrinsic functions in specification expressions.

** Extends the [maxloc] and [minloc] instrinsics.

** Changes the definition of the [sign] intrinsic function.

** Adds intrinsic procedure [cpu_time].

** Allows comments in namelist input.

Whether you consider these significant or not depends on whether your
needs and habits.  I find the first three very useful, and probably
would find [forall] useful if I could start thinking about it more.

-Dave

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