Best fortran compiler for Windows 7?

[jtbell]

Thirty years? That would be in the middle of the 1980s

Look at the date on the post that you quoted.

 

[S.G. Janssens]

This thread pre-dates dinosaurs as well as FORTRAN (hyperbole). I am not positive, but I believe "necroposting" is no-no here.

The thread was no that old. (It was still open for replies.) In any case, it seems to have been re-animated by a one-time poster with more interest in (and knowledge about) his own link than in (about) Fortran.

 

[jim mcnamara]

@Krylov I agree. Apparently the rule is not hard and fast, which understandable. Mentor indicated that since it has had a stream of posts over time they feel it can stay.

Older PF threads are meant for reference usually. And they are a resource.

 

[rcgldr]

Historical trivia - I learned Fortran IV back in 1968 in high school, at a special Saturday class at an IBM data center (back in the days when many companies rented time on computers located at data centers). The high school had a Monrobot computer at the time that used some custom language called quickcomp, but a year later (1969), my high school got an IBM 1130 computer where I used Fortran IV, and assembly. My first job in 1973 on HP 2100 series computers was mostly assembly on a multi-computer / multi-threading database online system, using Fortran IV for the offline work. I also did some self-study programming in APL and Cobol at a local college computer center. I didn't start programming in C until the mid 1980's.

So getting back to the original question, since it's now 2016 and not 2011, what Fortran compilers are good for Windows 7 and later, perhaps 64 bit mode and possibly usage of SIMD / SSE instructions? How much of a trade off between good compiler and cost?