The F language guide (Q4344147)

I've to confess that I never heard of F before. But I know Fortran (Formula Translater), a computer language with (numerical) applications in scientific and technical fields. Fortran is one of the oldest problem oriented languages. Its first version appeared in 1956 and its development lasts till today with Fortran90/95 as an actual language standard. Over the years lots of Fortran program libraries has been buildt up and for compatibility reasons the language grew bigger and bigger and reached a high degree of complexity. This complexity is the starting point for \(F\), a subset of the Fortran language. F contains all modern features of Fortran and is small and easy to survey. Wilhelm Gehrke of the Regional Computing Center of the University of Hannover/Germany is author of some Fortran books and knows a lot about using, debugging and teaching Fortran. His book about F is a complete language description. It is not a tutorial and unsuitable for novices in programming. It's a reference manual and it is aimed at programmers (teachers and professional programmers) to whom a computer (a mainframe I think) with a F compiler is given (surely from a computer center) and who want to use F instead of Fortran.