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Fortran Programming Tools under Linux

Issue 25

From Issue #25
May 1996

May 01, 1996  By Steven A. Hughes
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Steve Hughes proves that the Fortran Programming language's variety of high-quality programming tools and libraries provide a capability that, when coupled with all the features of Linux, makes for a potent programming platform for engineers and scientists.
Conclusions

The Fortran programming language is reasonably well supported in the Linux environment. Furthermore, a variety of high-quality programming tools and libraries provide a capability that, when coupled with all the features of Linux, makes for a potent programming platform for engineers and scientists.

In the future we can expect a robust g77 compiler with debugger support, continued improvement in existing support libraries, and release of new Fortran tools. Perhaps even more exciting is work being done by the Linux-Lab Project. This project is developing drivers to support acquisition of laboratory and field data using Linux. Higher-level interface to most hardware devices will be via C language libraries, which (we hope) will also be callable from our Fortran programs.

So take the plunge, you Fortran fanatics! It will be an exciting adventure!

Thanks to Tony Dalrymple, Rod Sobey, and Gary Howell for helpful comments on this article.

Dr. Steven Hughes (s.hughes@cerc.wes.army.mil) is a senior research engineer at the Coastal Engineering Research Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi. His research activities focus on water wave kinematics, scour at breakwaters, and laboratory methodologies. He switched to Linux in October 1994 (kernel 1.1.54), but he admits to writing his first Fortran program over 25 years ago using FORTRAN 66 (or maybe that was FORTRAN 1.0?). Cycling and two teenage daughters keep Steve and his wife fit and frenzied, respectively.

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Fortran on Linux

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/16/2009 - 10:42.

Take look at this web site:
http://www.fesb.hr/~psarajce/LinuxOS.html

Also, the Netbeans IDE

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Submitted by Shige (not verified) on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 14:01.

Also, the Netbeans IDE provides good FORTRAN support.

Fortran F90/95

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 04/21/2006 - 08:38.

For those interested in FORTRAN under Linux OS, look for Fortran F90/95 which is a high level programming language, successor to the Fortran F77. It includes pointers, dinamic allocation, collon notation (when working with arrays), operator overloading, modules, and many more! It is equivalent to C programming language in all of it's features, plus everything from standard Fortran F77 (complex numbers native support). Fortran F90/95 is THE choice for scientists and engineers, due to the fact that it can be easily mixed with F77 source codes (calling F77 subroutines from F90 source code)! Thus, all subroutines once written in F77 are accesible through F90 sintax (including all repository subroutines found on Netlib (such as Slatec)! Also, there is an complete IDE for Fortran F90 on Linux OS, which is called Photran (based on Eclipse). KDevelop Multilanguage can be used as Fortran F77 IDE on any Linux OS (with KDE desktop)! Fortran F90/95 compilers (free versions) for Linux include: Intel Fortran Compiler for Linux 9.0, G95 fortran compiler, and GCC 4.0 part called gfortran. They all can be integrated with Photran IDE.

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