How to Express C++ Concepts in Fortran90

Article type: Research Article

Authors: DECYK, VIKTOR K.^; | NORTON, CHARLES D. | SZYMANSKI, BOLESLAW K.

Affiliations: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095‐1547, USA; e‐mail: decyk@physics.ucla.edu | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109‐8099, USA; e‐mail: nortonc@olympic.jpl.nasa.gov | Department of Computer Science and Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180‐3590, USA; e‐mail: szymansk@cs.rpi.edu

Abstract: This paper summarizes techniques for emulating in Fortran90 the most important object‐oriented concepts of C++: classes (including abstract data types, encapsulation and function overloading), inheritance and dynamic dispatching.

Journal: Scientific Programming, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 363-390, 1997