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A selection of open source or free Fortran compilers and tools

• GNU gfortran - Fortran 95 + many Fortran 2003 features
  
  
• GNU g77 - Fortran 77 - no longer being developed
  
  
• g95 - branch from gfortran - Fortran 95 + many Fortran 2003 features
  
  
• F - a highly regular subset of Fortran 95 - good introduction to modern Fortran
  
  
• Minimalist GUI for Windows (MinGW) - package to enable above compilers to run under Microsoft Windows
  
  
• 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
  
  

A selection of providers of Fortran training and consultancy

• The Fortran Company
  
  
• Fortranplus
  
  
• JKR Associates
  
  

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

• Michael Metcalf's Fortran 90/95/HPF Information File - no longer being updated but still very informative
  
  
• Fortran information @ Fortranplus
  
  
• Clive Page's Fortran Resources - including notes on Stream I/O in Fortran
  
  
• Object-oriented programming with Fortran - lecture notes from LRZ Software
  
  
• Bo Einarsson's Fortran page
  
  
• Liverpool University's Fortran 90 course material
  
  
• Skip Knoble's Fortran Resources and Compilers
  
  
• Fortran Open Directory - links to compilers, tutorials, books and code
  
  

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
  
  
• Obituaries of John W. Backus - built and led the IBM team that created Fortran - died on Saturday 17 March 2007 aged 82
  
  
• Fortran in 2007 - including Fifty Years of Fortran meeting (January 2007) - other activities and publications
  
  
• International Fortran Standards Working Group (WG5)
  
  
• US Fortran Standards Technical Committee (INCITS/J3)
  
  

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