Upgraded to Latest (March 2012) gfortran (4.7.0)
I was reading a little from the newsgroups today and decided to have a look at the latest from the HPC on Mac OS X to see if they had an updated gfortran for OS X 10.7 - and indeed they did. I downloaded the package, updated my removal script and then installed the latest version. I then rebuilt my thesis code with it, and was happy to see that it all still worked.
Not that I didn't think it would, but it's nice that it still works.
I'm not sure what I was planning, but I have to admit that it might be really nice to get back into FORTRAN and just write code. But that's the same with C++, isn't it? I just want to write code. Not really mess with GUIs… not mess with people, and politics, and all the cruft that comes from dealing with people -- I just want to write code again.
Maybe I'll dig into my thesis and try to see where the convergence issues really are. I know they are there, but I'm not sure that FORTRAN is the best language to find them. Maybe Obj-C might be nice. It's certainly got all the functionality I'd need, and it'd be nice to be able to have the physics in modules, but we'll have to think about it a bit.