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A selection of open source or free Fortran compilers and tools

• GNU gfortran - Fortran 95 + most of Fortran 2003 and 2008 and some of the proposed Fortran 2015 features
• GNU g77 - Fortran 77 - no longer being developed
• g95 (Internet Archive capture) - branch from gfortran - Fortran 95 + many Fortran 2003 features
• F (Internet Archive capture) - a highly regular subset of Fortran 95 - good introduction to modern Fortran. Note that the character F was used as the logo for this compiler, possibly a fact unknown to those who use it more recently to stand for Fortran in general.
• Minimalist GNU for Windows (MinGW, Internet Archive capture) - package to enable above compilers to run under Microsoft Windows
  This project appears to be continuing at https://www.mingw-w64.org/.
• DISLIN - high-level Fortran-callable plotting library for displaying data as curves, graphs, charts, plots, surfaces and maps
• Some commercial compilers are available free of charge for non-commercial use, some are listed here and others can be found in the links below

A selection of suppliers of commercial Fortran compilers, libraries and tools

• The Fortran Company
• Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
• Polyhedron Software
• DynamicSource - Fortran tools for the aviation industry
• Approximatrix Simply Fortran - uses GNU gfortran & gcc compilers

A selection of providers of Fortran training and consultancy

• The Fortran Company
• Fortranplus
• Cranfield University
• EPCC ARCHER2 service training
• Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
• High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
• Sourcery, Inc.

A selection of other Fortran online resources - some overlap is likely

• Michael Metcalf's Fortran 90/95/HPF Information File (Internet Archive capture) - no longer being updated but still very informative
• Michael Metcalf's article on Fortran 95 language features in Wikipedia
• Fortran information @ Fortranplus
• Clive Page's Fortran Resources (Internet Archive capture) - including notes on Stream I/O in Fortran
• Bo Einarsson's Fortran page (Internet Archive capture)
• Fortran Open Directory (Internet Archive capture) - links to compilers, tutorials, books and code
• Jason Blevins' Fortran Wiki
• Fortran: 7 Reasons Why It's Not Dead
• Linkedin Fortran Programmers Group - over 3700 members (September 2016)
• comp-fortran-90 email list
• The comp.lang.fortran USENET News Group. For decades this has been the premier discussion group for Fortran.
• The Fortran Discourse discusson area of the Fortran-lang community.

The history and development of Fortran

• History of FORTRAN and FORTRAN II - maintained by Paul McJones at the Computer History Museum - includes audio and video material
• Fortran - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Martin Greenfield's article from 1982 on the history of FORTRAN 66 and FORTRAN 77 standards development
• Obituaries of John W. Backus - who built and led the IBM team that created Fortran - he died on Saturday 17 March 2007 aged 82
• Fortran in 2007 - including Fifty Years of Fortran meeting (January 2007) + other activities and publications
• Michael Metcalf's The Seven Ages of Fortran article from Journal of Computer Science & Technology, 11, No. 1 (April 2011)
• Codes that changed the World - BBC Radio 4 series covering Fortran, Cobol, Basic and Java. (broadcast between 6 & 10 April 2015) Now available on BBC iPlayer Radio.
• Doctor Fortran in "The Future of Fortran" from SC14 (March 2015)
• International Fortran Standards Working Group (WG5)
• US Fortran Standards Technical Committee (INCITS/J3)

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