Upgraded to gfortran 4.5 from HPC on Mac OS X
This morning I decided it's been almost a year since I've gotten the latest FORTRAN compiler from the HPC for Mac OS X web site. They typically update ever couple of months, and with the release of Snow Leopard, I was in for a wonderful treat - they had a Snow Leopard version that generated 64-bit executables. This is fantastic news!
I downloaded the package, updated my uninstall script based on the tarball's contents, and then gave it a whirl.
peabody{drbob}275: gfortran --version GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.5.0 20090910 (experimental) Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GNU Fortran comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of GNU Fortran under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING peabody{drbob}276:
Sweet.
I love that they build this package with auto-vectorization and OpenMP built in. This is just one of the most wonderful treats of life: to be able to work with such a wonderfully simple programming language on such wonderfully complex problems. Face it - there's no GUI for FORTRAN, it's standard out. Period. That means that you're not going to be making a cool web browser in it. It's not meant to do that. It's meant to push bits around and solve problems like never before.
There's no doubt that FORTRAN was one of the things that drew me into computers back in the 70's. It's just that incredible. I feel incredible joy in being able to use it. Thanks to the HPC on Mac OS X guys for making my day.