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

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 02/19/14 15:01, Jon Hood wrote:


I 2nd the motion on ifort, still crushes gcc ....


> I can vouch for Intel's fortran compiler over GCC's. ifort blows gfort out
> of the water, or at least it did 5 years ago.
> -Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: luna-bounces_squinky86=gmail.com at lunagroup.us
> [mailto:luna-bounces_squinky86=gmail.com at lunagroup.us] On Behalf Of Paul F.
> Pearson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:59 PM
> To: Linux Users of North Alabama mailing list
> Cc: Gayle Lee Fairless
> Subject: Re: [LUNA] Free Pascal, Lazarus, and Dev-Pascal
>
> ----- "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.
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