Fortran information & resources

Fortran compilers

Compiler Support for the Fortran 2008 and 2018 Standards:
Version 1 (April 2020), Ian Chivers & Jane Sleightholme

This document appears as a regular article in Fortran Forum.

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Earlier versions of our compiler support article

Fortran compiler comparisons for Windows & Linux hosted by Polyhedron Solutions

GFortran

Free compiler - from GNU Fortran project.

Intel

Versions of Intel Parallel Studio XE Composer Edition available for Windows, Linux, and OS X.

NAG Fortran compiler release 6.2 available on Unix, Windows & Mac OS

NAG Fortran Builder - an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for release 6.2 of the Microsoft Windows version of the NAG Fortran compiler.

Fortran resources

Fortran resource file - updated 16 March 2020
Detailed and up-to-date Fortran information covering compilers, books, on-line training material, graphics, parallel programming, analysis, conversion & maintenance tools, electronic lists, standards bodies, Fortran groups & newsletters, Fortran tools, libraries & applications

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Fortran 2003

The new features of Fortran 2003 (N1648) , John Reid, WG5 Convener (pdf)
N1648_john_reid_new_f2003.pdf
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Fortran 2008

The Fortran 2008 standard was published on 6 October 2010

The new features of Fortran 2008 (N1891), John Reid, WG5 Convener (pdf)
N1891.pdf
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Coarrays in the next Fortran standard, John Reid, WG5 Convener (pdf)
N1824.pdf
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TS 29113

Technical Specification 29113 was published in 2012. This Technical Specification extends the facility of Fortran for interoperating with C.

Fortran 2018

The Fortran 2018 standard published December 2018.

The new features of Fortran 2018 (N2161), John Reid (pdf)
N2161.pdf
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Fortran standards work

WG5 - the official home of Fortran standards

Fortran electronic lists, faq & groups

comp-fortran-90

A Jiscmail hosted list which is restricted to questions about Fortran since the publication of the Fortran 90 standard. It can either be browsed on-line or subscribed to and postings will be received by email.

comp.lang.fortran

A Usenet news hosted list covering all aspects of Fortran.

Fortran Discourse

Launched on 4th May 2020 - this is an online discussion board for anything and everything Fortran related.

British Computer Society Fortran Specialist Group

Linkedin's Fortran group - over 4000 members

A business-related social networking site with a lively Fortran group.

The ACM Fortran Forum newsletter

A publication of the Special Interest Group in Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Fortran Forum was founded by Loren Meissner and is published three times year.

Numerical Libraries

Numerical Algorithms Group

Netlib repository of software, papers, and database

IMSL

Graphics Libraries

Dislin

Fortran's history

Fortran history and development - Ian Chivers & Jane Sleightholme
Fortran_history_and_development.pdf
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History of Fortran at the Computer History Museum

A project to preserve material relating to the original IBM 704 FORTRAN/Fortran II
compiler.

The Fortran (not the foresight) saga!
brian_meeks_fortran_saga.pdf
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An article written by Brian Meek in 1990 on the development of Fortran.