Silverfrost FTN95 5.21

Publisher's description of Silverfrost FTN95

With Silverfrost FTN95 you can create console based, conventional Windows and Microsoft .NET applications. Silverfrost FTN95 is the only compiler that can produce Microsoft .NET applications that can use the full Fortran 95 language. Silverfrost FTN95 also boasts its world leading Checkmate run. Salford FTN95 can now be used free for personal use. It is strictly for personal use or evaluation purposes. You can use it at home on your own personal projects. You can use it to evaluate FTN95 with the intention of purchasing it later. Any applications you create with it will display a banner announcing that it is the personal edition.

Version 5.21 enhances Visual Studio 2008 support.

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  Silverfrost FTN95

  Outstanding compiler

  by: c l edwards on 10-Jul-2008 03:10:52 PM

  Pros: can be used in a GUI or command line fashion; has meaningful error messages

  Cons: run time errors erase all previous output to point of failure

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  Silverfrost FTN95

  Best way to program in Windows

  by: Scnet01 on 26-Jul-2008 11:53:55 AM

  Pros: Built in GUI builder, scientific graphics, bitmap handling and OpenGL if you want fast and powerful Windows programming. I use all that all the time. Most rigorous error checking among all Fortran compilers based on Polyhedron tests. And with /undef and /full_debug finds the most hidden errors you suspected but couldn't find in your code for 20 years :-). Great at making fun at colleagues by finding unbelievable amount of errors, mostly small, but sometimes really serious, in their codes if they use different compilers. With multithreading it is ready for multicore processors. Capable of .NET and has own C++ where you can do such tricks as mixing Fortran and C in the same code. Is most compatible with all older Fortran77 codes. Champion in compilation speed, an order faster at least. Helpful community on the web. My preferred one.

  Cons: Mentioned above crazy amount of features and debugging capabilities came at a price that it builds not the fastest executables, but your mileage may vary. When you build larger and larger codes though you realize that being 10% or even 30% faster is not the most important factor. From my fox hole, my development and debugging time is #1. In some cases I also use Intel Fortran, which in average creates faster executables, but does not have all mentioned benefits, for potential squeezing of last drops of performance, though, again, probably this is not worth of time - each new upgrade to new fastest processor gives me exponentially more juice compared to optimization which is just linear factor. YMMV but not very much.

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  Silverfrost FTN95

  I want to be a programmer

  by: capetapeta on 15-Jun-2008 10:45:55 AM

  Pros: I don't know I want to know How is the soft and fortran

  Cons: I don't know

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