10.1 Fortran 2008 Overview

This part of the manual describes those parts of the Fortran 2008 language which are not in Fortran 2003, and which are currently supported by the NAG Fortran Compiler.

Fortran 2008 is a major revision to Fortran 2003: the new language features can be grouped as follows:

• SPMD programming with coarrays;
• data declaration;
• data usage and computation;
• execution control;
• intrinsic procedures and modules;
• input/output extensions;
• programs and procedures.