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Exposing Fortran Derived Types to C and Other Languages
July/August 2008 (vol. 10 no. 4)
pp. 86-92
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Alexander Pletzer, Douglas McCune, Stefan Muszala, Srinath Vadlamani, Scott Kruger, "Exposing Fortran Derived Types to C and Other Languages," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 86-92, July/August, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCSE.2008.94,
author = {Alexander Pletzer and Douglas McCune and Stefan Muszala and Srinath Vadlamani and Scott Kruger},
title = {Exposing Fortran Derived Types to C and Other Languages},
journal ={Computing in Science and Engineering},
volume = {10},
number = {4},
issn = {1521-9615},
year = {2008},
pages = {86-92},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2008.94},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - Computing in Science and Engineering
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KW - scientific programming
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JA - Computing in Science and Engineering
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Douglas McCune, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Scott Kruger, Tech-X
When building large scientific codes, you might have to mix different programming languages. The authors show how to bridge the interoperability gap between Fortran 90/95 and C, and from C to other languages, with working code examples.

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Index Terms:
scientific programming, Fortran, Python, derived types, programming languages
Citation:
Alexander Pletzer, Douglas McCune, Stefan Muszala, Srinath Vadlamani, Scott Kruger, "Exposing Fortran Derived Types to C and Other Languages," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 86-92, July-Aug. 2008, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2008.94
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