I need to start developing in FORTRAN, any recommendations on learning\developing FORTRAN coming from the .NET area? Any recommended environments that are close to Visual Studio? Visual Fortran looked really promising, but is a bit pricey, and look like it wouldn't compile with gcc.
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Eclipse is a great IDE for Java and apparently there is support for Fortran... see:
Reinsbrain
2009-01-04 16:32:56
Thank you, I will give this a shot
ccook
2009-01-04 16:49:24
how did you find using the eclipse plugin?
laurie
2009-01-19 09:10:56
It's been working great! Eclipse has been a pleasant surprise!
ccook
2009-01-28 02:11:36
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What about Visual Studio + Intel Fortran ? I use that combination when I port a program to Windows. Don't know nuthin about .NET though.
There isn't much of a buzz around the Fortran world about Eclipse+Photran. An awful lot of us Fortran hackers think that Emacs is an IDE.
Finally, on Linux you might try Sun Studio Express -- it's free and includes Fortran, C, C++ compilers and an IDE based on NetBeans (actually, I think it is NetBeans)
High Performance Mark
2009-01-06 15:30:38