, early and accurate forecasts for hurricanes and other major storms have saved thousands of lives., better designs for ships, planes, and automobiles have made travel safer, more efficient, and less expensive than ever before., low-level machine learning and deep learning libraries provide incredibly easy, fast, and insightful analysis of massive data for science, business, and industry.Fortran is an amazingly powerful and flexible programming language that forms the foundation of high performance computing for research, science, and industry. And it's come a long, long way since starting life on IBM mainframes in 1956. Modern Fortran is natively parallel, so it's uniquely suited for efficiently handling problems like complex simulations, long-range predictions, and ultra-precise designs. If you're working on tasks where speed, accuracy, and efficiency matter, it's time to discover—or re-discover—Fortran.

If I had this book when writing my master thesis in astrophysics I would have spared a lot of time in learning how to write the code for my calculations.

About the Technology

Fortran is a general-purpose programming language that is dominant in engineering and scientific computing applications. It’s the leading language used in high performance (HPC) and parallel programming. While Fortran is the oldest high-level programming language, it is constantly improving. A recent major revision of the standard, Fortran 2008, added native support for parallel programming on shared-and distributed-memory architectures, and will be one of few languages used for next-generation exascale HPC applications. The latest edition, Fortran 2018, brings additional parallel features and improves interoperability with C.

A few Fortran facts:

If you read or listened to the weather forecast this morning, you used Fortran.

You’ll find Fortran at the lowest levels of most popular data analysis and machine learning frameworks

Fortran is the reference benchmark language used to measure the performance of the fastest supercomputers in the world (https://top500.org)

Fortran is the only natively-parallel programming language steered by an International Standards Committee with scientists and engineers as its target audience

Fortran is the dominant language of the High Performance Computing, spanning industries from applied mathematics, fluid and aerodynamics, to weather, ocean, and climate prediction

Simply put, the future is in parallel, and Fortran is already there.