Interfacing D with C and Fortran

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On Tuesday, 4 April 2017 at 16:20:56 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> Unless I missed it, there is no mention of iso_c_binding for 
> Fortran. That is worth at least a mention, because
>
> - It is documented well and handles many of the underlying 
> details.
> - It creates a C interface that can then be called from D like 
> a C function.
> - The target audience of this article includes C programmers 
> already calling into Fortran using iso_c_binding. There's no 
> reason for them to think they have to learn something new to 
> switch to D.
>
> I haven't used Fortran in some time, but when I did call it 
> from C, iso_c_binding was very helpful.

Fair point. I was in two minds about mentioning this because 
Fortran programmers will already know about it but including it 
is probably the right thing.