On Thu 05 Apr 01, 4:01 PM, Gabriel Rosa said: > > Hey all, > > is there a free Fortran 90/95 compiler for Unix? > > thanks > -Gabe not technically. there are free (GNU) programs that convert 90/95 into 77, and then you can use g77 to compile the 77 code. there is a project to write a free g95 compiler. just went to sourceforge (which is hosting the project). the last CVS commit was 6 hours ago, so the project is definitely not stagnant. progress is being made. i heard someone was collecting donations to help fund the programmers, but i can't find mention of it. instead, the project manager seems to want chocolate or beer. homepage: http://g95.sourceforge.net/ they estimate that 200,000 lines of code will be needed to implement g95. they are currently at 28,000. it currently does nothing practical. the project is listed as "pre-alpha". check out: http://g95.sourceforge.net/. it's being written in C. this is one of the weak links in open source, IMHO. fortran is MUCH better suited for numeric calculations. it's much more forgiving than C and allows non-programming savy scientists program without having to worry about things like promotions, off-by-one errors, prototypes and the like. you can do really neat stuff with fortran 90. like if you have an array of 10 elements, then something like newarray = cosine(oldarray) does exactly what you think it ought to do. parts of fortran 95 almost remind me of perl. but a much prettier perl. although with C99, C has come a LONG way to accommodate non-programming savy scientists. if i knew about C99 a year ago, i would've written my quantum simulators in vanilla C. pete -- "Coffee... I've conquered the Borg on coffee!" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kathryn Janeway on the virtues of coffee www.dirac.org/p
