[LUNA] Free Pascal, Lazarus, and Dev-Pascal

[Paul F. Pearson]

----- "Gayle Lee Fairless" <gayle.fairless at gmail.com> wrote:

> 	Do you have a recommendation for FORTRAN?  (Free, of course!)
> 
> 	I would guess FORTRAN 95 or a later one would be a good choice?

I never really did much FORTRAN, and it doesn't come up much on the forums I frequent (primarily reddit's /r/programming). Apparently MinGW has a compiler, and there's a proprietary product (IDE that comes with GNU fortran) name Simply Fortran. It appears that intel has a compiler that can be had for free (I don't know which OS platforms it supports). 


> 	I was also hoping for a good fpcmake -T X86_64 etc. and etc. to use. 

Again, I've only toyed with free pascal a bit, never got that deep.
 
> 		Thanks for your help!  I just got a hefty book by Charles Petzold,
> Programming Microsoft WINDOWS with C#.  I like his writing style.  A

I concur on Petzold's writing (not a fan of C#, but that's "political"). I recall his old Win32 book, which was pretty much the gold standard in the 3.1 and '95 days.