Fortran 90与面向对象程序设计

面向对象方法已经成一种最有前途的软件开发方法之一。面对对象程序设计方法应用于工程计算已有近十年，所采用的语言为Ｃ＋＋，Ｅｉｆｆｅｌ和Ｓｍａｌｌｔａｌｋ等。

Fortran 90 and Object-Oriented Programming

Object oriented programming (OOP) has become one of the most promising methods for developing software. It has been applied in engineering computation for nearly a decade. Examples of OOP languages are C , Eiffel, Smalltalk and so on. In early 1990's all the literature on OOP disparaged Fortran77 (F77) for its lack of object oriented features and data structures. However, Fortran90 (F90), the new generation of Fortran, is designed to contain most of features of OOP languages such as C , Eiffel and Smalltalk. Besides, it is readily extended to massively parallel machines and conforms to ISO and ANSI standards. Although F90 is fully compatible with F77, it has key features of OOP such as powerful encapsulation, inheritance, multiple inheritance, polymorphism, and so on. This paper illustrates these features which are important to engineering computation with samples.