11-27-2010, 11:04 PM
Free? http://www.g95.org/index.shtml
I haven't tried this, suffice to say the dialect has changed a bit since I learned it in the 80's, using the FORTRAN '77 standard. I've probably forgotten more than I remember, I was only good at it because after having it in High School it was again a requirement for all engineering majors and sicne that was round 2 for me, I did so well I was asked to be a (paid) tutor for my final 3 years. And I actually USED it at my first job - we had a Brown & Sharpe coordinate measuring machine controlled with a PDP-11 computer and one of the available compilers on it was FORTRAN so I wrote all my parts measuring programs in FORTRAN.
Ah the days when it was fairly easy and FUN to progrma computers, now there is so much enforced structure and it takes a whole routine to do what a line or two used to do, and it's no longer fun.
Sorry, off topic - just reminiscing.
--Randy
I haven't tried this, suffice to say the dialect has changed a bit since I learned it in the 80's, using the FORTRAN '77 standard. I've probably forgotten more than I remember, I was only good at it because after having it in High School it was again a requirement for all engineering majors and sicne that was round 2 for me, I did so well I was asked to be a (paid) tutor for my final 3 years. And I actually USED it at my first job - we had a Brown & Sharpe coordinate measuring machine controlled with a PDP-11 computer and one of the available compilers on it was FORTRAN so I wrote all my parts measuring programs in FORTRAN.
Ah the days when it was fairly easy and FUN to progrma computers, now there is so much enforced structure and it takes a whole routine to do what a line or two used to do, and it's no longer fun.
Sorry, off topic - just reminiscing.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad of the 1950's in HO
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Visit my web site to see layout progress and other information:
http://www.readingeastpenn.com