MIXED LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING

The topic of mixed language programming, or inter language communication, has in recent years received greater attention than before. This is partly due to the successful acceptance of the high-level languages Ada, C, C++ and Pascal, together with the strong survival of the classical languages Cobol and Fortran.

Fortran 90/95 is in some implementations difficult to mix with Fortran 77. A discussion of this is given in chapter 15 of the tutorial by Bo Einarsson and Yurij Shokin.

A recent development is Fortran 2003, which has facilities for mixing Fortran and C in a standardized way, see my draft article Mixed Language Programming, Fortran 2003 and C.

Several papers on mixed language programming have been published. A Bibliography on Mixed Language Programming is available, but it ought to be updated.

Last modified: October 16, 2008
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