Fortran 2003 & 2008 Poll — Result

Fortran 2003

For a description of each of the items below, please have a look at John Reid, The new features of Fortran 2003.

Feature	Deployment			Importance
1 IEEE arithmetic (TR 15580)	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
2 Allocatable enhancements (TR 15581)	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know

Fortran 2003 data enhancements and object orientation

Feature	Deployment			Importance
1 Parameterized derived types	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
2 Procedure pointers	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
3 Finalization	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
4 Procedures bound by name to a type	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
5 The PASS attribute	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
6 Procedures bound to a type as operators	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
7 Type extension	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
8 Overriding a type-bound procedure	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
9 Enumerations	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
10 ASSOCIATE construct	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
11 Polymorphic entities	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
12 SELECT TYPE construct	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
13 Deferred bindings and abstract types	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know

Fortran 2003 Miscellaneous enhancements

Feature	Deployment			Importance
1 Structure constructors	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
2 The allocate statement	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
3 Assignment to an allocatable array	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
4 Transferring an allocation	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
5 More control of access from a module	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
6 Renaming operators on the USE statement	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
7 Pointer assignment	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
8 Pointer INTENT	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
9 The VOLATILE attribute	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
10 The IMPORT statement	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
11 Intrinsic modules	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
12 Access to the computing environment	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
13 Support for international character sets (UTF-8 + UCS-4)	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
14 Lengths of names and statements	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
15 Binary, octal and hex constants	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
16 Array constructor syntax	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
17 Specification and initialization expressions	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
18 Complex constants	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
19 Changes to intrinsic functions	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
20 Controlling IEEE underflow	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
21 Another IEEE class value	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know

Fortran 2003 I/O enhancements

Feature	Deployment			Importance
1 Derived type input/output	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
2 Asynchronous input/output	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
3 FLUSH statement	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
4 IOMSG= specifier	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
5 Stream access input/output	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
6 ROUND= specifier	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
7 DECIMAL= specifier	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
8 SIGN= specifier	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
9 Kind type parameters of integer specifiers	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
10 Recursive input/output	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
11 Intrinsic function for newline character	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
12 Input and output of IEEE exceptional values	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know

Fortran 2003 interoperability with C

Feature	Deployment			Importance
1 Interoperability with C	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know

Fortran 2008

For a description of each of the items below, please have a look at John Reid, The new features of Fortran 2008.

Feature	Deployment			Importance
1 Submodules	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
2 Coarrays	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
3 do concurrent	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
4 Contiguous attribute	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
5 Long integers	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
6 Allocatable components	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
7 Implied-shape array	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
8 Pointer initialization	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
9 Kind of forall index	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
10 Allocating a polymorphic variable	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
11 %re and %im	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
12 Pointer functions	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
13 newunit= (finding a unit when OPENing a file)	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
14 g0 edit descriptor	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
15 Unlimited format item	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
16 Recursive I/O	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
17 Block construct	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
18 Exit statement	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
19 Stop code	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
20 Intrinsic procedures for bit processing	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
21 Storage_size	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
22 radix= in selected_real_kind	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
23 Hyperbolic functions acosh, asinh, atanh	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
24 Bessel functions	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
25 Tangent function: atan2 accessable as atan	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
26 Error functions	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
27 Gamma functions	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
28 Euclidean vector norm	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
29 Parity	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
30 Execute command line	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
31 Findloc	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
32 New ISO_Fortran_env constants	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
33 compiler_option/compiler_version	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
34 c_sizeof	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
35 Empty contains section	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
36 Internal proc as actual argument	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
37 Generic resolution by pointer/allocatable attr.	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
38 Null pointer as missing argument	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
39 IMPURE elemental procedure	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know

Parallelization

Feature	Deployment			Importance
1 OpenMP 2.5	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
2 OpenMP 3.0	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
3 MPI 1	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
4 MPI 2	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
5 Coarrays	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
6 Auto parallelization	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
7 Other (1)	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very important / 0 Important / 0 Useful / 0 Rarely needed / 0 Never / 0 Do not know

(1) Other: None specified.

Used compilers

Feature	Deployment			Usage
1 Absoft	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
2 Cray	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
3 ftn95	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
4 g95	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
5 GNU Fortran	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
6 IBM xlf	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
7 HP	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
8 Intel Fortran	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
9 Lahey	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
10 NAGware f95	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
11 Open64	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
12 Pathscale	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
13 PGI Portland	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
14 SGI	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
15 SUN Studio	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
16 g77	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
17 Other (1)	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know

(1) Other: None specified.

Cross compilers

Feature	Deployment			Usage
1 Cross compiler (please specify) (1)	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know

(1) Cross compiler (please specify): None specified.

Used operating systems

Feature	Deployment			Usage
1 Linux	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
2 Windows	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
3 Mac	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
4 FreeBSD	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
5 Solaris	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
6 AIX	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
7 Tru64	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
8 Other (1)	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know

(1) Other: None specified.

Used hardware platform

Feature	Deployment			Usage
1 x86 (32bit)	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
2 x86-64	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
3 ia64	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
4 PowerPC	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
5 Sparc	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
6 s390	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
7 Alpha	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
8 Mips	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know
9 Other (1)	0 used / 0 planned / 0 will not use			0 Very often / 0 Often / 0 Regularly / 0 Seldom / 0 Never / 0 Do not know

(1) Other: None specified.