PLNews: Programming Language News

The Fortran Wiki has been announced. It is "an open venue for discussing all aspects of the Fortran programming language and scientific computing."

Open Watcom v1.8 has been released. Open Watcom is an open-source continuation of the Watcom C, C++ and Fortran compilers.

This release includes: stricter type checking on C enumerated types, improved C compiler support for detecting functions that do not return, C compiler support for compiling larger and more complex source files, improved and new C and C++ compiler warnings, C++ compiler support for the explicit specification of function template arguments, C++ compiler support for the lazy instantiation of class templates and template members, C++ compiler bug fixes, Fortran compiler fixes and improvements, library improvements, Linux support for the Fortran run time libraries, debugging-related improvements, linker improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

NAG Fortran Compiler Release 5.2 has been released. It is a multi-platform Fortran compiler.

This release includes: support for procedure pointers, object-bound procedures, scalar allocatable variables, support for more intrinsic functions appearing in initialisation expressions, recursive input/output, the ASSOCIATE construct, the MOVE_ALLOC intrinsic subroutine, support for renaming user-defined operators via the USE statement, compilation speed improvements, faster allocation and deallocation of scalar pointers, faster intrinsic functions, threading improvements, support for quad precision REAL on all platforms, runtime error messages that specify the location of the error, more warnings, and other changes.

Open64 4.2 has been released. Open64 is an open source compiler suite including compilers for C, C++, and Fortran.

This release includes: the enabling of the GCC 4.2.0-based front-end, improved Fortran 2003 support, reduced IPA memory usage, optimization improvements, support for new targets, bug fixes, and other changes.

Absoft Pro Fortran v10.1 has been announced. It is a Fortran compiler suite supporting Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

This release includes: support for Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, auto-parallelization, auto-vectorization, performance improvements, and other changes. Linux is the first platform to be supported, with Windows and Mac OS X support to be available this fall.

Sun Studio 12 has been released. It includes compilers for C, C++ and Fortran, supporting Solaris on SPARC, and Solaris and Linux on x86/x64.

The changes for this release include: support for Linux, new multithreading/multicore tools, performance improvements, improved GCC compatibility, and more.

InlineFortran 1.0.0 has been released. InlineFortran allows for Fortran code to be embedded within Ruby scripts.

It has been announced that PGI Visual Fortran is now available. It integrates the PGI suite of 32-bit and 64-bit parallel Fortran compilers and tools into Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

Intel Fortran Compiler 9.1 for Linux has been released.

This release includes: improved runtime performance optimizations, performance optimizations for the Core and Core 2 processors, support for additional Fortran 2003 features, and more.

Intel Visual Fortran 9.1 for Windows has been released.

This release includes: support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, performance optimizations for the Core and Core 2 processors, improved runtime performance optimizations, support for additional Fortran 2003 features, and more.

Absoft Fortan Compiler v10 for 64-bit Windows has been announced.

Open Watcom 1.5 has been released. Open Watcom is an open-source continuation of the Watcom C, C++ and Fortran compilers.

This release includes: a __restrict keyword for the C compiler, new C warnings, optimization improvements, support for the C99 floating-point classification macros, support for the ISO/IEC TR 24731 Safer C Library, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Open Watcom 1.4 has been released. Open Watcom is an open-source continuation of Watcom C, C++ and Fortran compilers.

A list of changes to the C and C++ compilers is available. This release includes: support for C99 designated initializers, support in the C++ compiler for the new template specialization syntax and partial support for partial specialization, support for the Microsoft fastcall calling convention, plus many other changes and fixes.

Intel has announced that trial versions of their C++ and Fortran compilers for Intel-based Mac systems from Apple are now available.

The suite of development tools is expected to be available for purchase during the second quarter of 2006.

Paul McJones has announced that five ACM-copyrighted articles concerning FORTRAN are now available at the History of FORTRAN and FORTRAN II web site of the Computer History Museum.

Included are articles such as "A Technological Review of the FORTRAN I Compiler", by F.E. Allen, and "The history of FORTRAN I, II and III", by John Backus.

The Portland Group has announced that version 6.1 of their optimizing C, C++ and Fortran compilers will be available on December 15, 2005.

This release includes: support for generating unified binaries for Intel and AMD x64 processors, support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 editions, in addition to other changes.