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Fortran

Development tools · Tutorials and FAQs · External resources

Fortran (FORmula TRANslation) is one of the oldest high level languages, certainly the oldest that is still in use. It was originally developed by IBM in the late 1950s, and has been through numerous revisions since then. The latest version is Fortran 90, the preceding version was Fortran 77.


Development tools:

A free Fortran 77 compiler


Tutorials and FAQs:

Notes on Fortran Programming, a complete Fortran textbook
Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 Programmer, a tutorial on upgrading from Fortran 77 to Fortran 90
The Fortran FAQ from the newsgroup comp.lang.fortran
A Fortran 90 addition to the Fortran FAQ


External resources:

The Fortran Marketplace
Lahey Computer Systems, a major source of Fortran-related software
Tomasz Plewa's Numerical Methods page has lots of links to Fortran-related resources
The Numerical Algortihms Group provides Fortran software and information
Fortran links at Yahoo (or at Yahoo UK)
The newsgroup comp.lang.fortran