# Fortran Monthly Call: October 2020

**URL:** <https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-october-2020/347>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [October 16, 2020, 4:17am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-october-2020/347 "2020-10-16T04:17:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-monthly-call-october-2020/347/11 "2020-10-27T19:16:36Z")

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Here is a summary, as I remember:

- Help review stdlib PRs:

- Here is the link for the `split` function that I mentioned at the call: [https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/issues/241](https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/issues/241)

- autodiff for our website: [https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/issues/161](https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/issues/161)

- autodiff prototype in LFortran: [https://gitlab.com/lfortran/lfortran/-/issues/97#note\_437128509](https://gitlab.com/lfortran/lfortran/-/issues/97#note_437128509)

- @ivanpribec posted: A good introduction to Forward mode is in this video from the Julia community: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAp6nUMrKYg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAp6nUMrKYg)

- Conditional expressions in array initializers use case: [https://github.com/j3-fortran/fortran\_proposals/issues/183#issuecomment-717485915](https://github.com/j3-fortran/fortran_proposals/issues/183#issuecomment-717485915)

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