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Ask HN: Best Fortran to Look At

My summer internship involves fortran. I'm wondering if there are any really good example codebases I should look at to prepare.

eesmith 8y ago
I'm not a Fortran person and can't give you a real answer. I can suggest some things to help narrow down your search. Do you know if the code base is in Fortran 77, Fortran 90, or something more recent? It doesn't make sense to look at code base which uses a lot of Fortran 2008 features if you are going to be using F90. Which field will you be working in? If you are going to work on fluid dynamics it may not make much sense to look at an astrodynamics package. My limited search found a few places you might look at where people asked something similar to your question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2758635/writing-robust-and-modern-fortran-code https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2758635/writing-robust-a... https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/2328/are-there-open-source-scientific-libraries-which-use-modern-fortran-with-oop https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/2328/are-there-o...
- Something1234 8y ago
  It's all relatively new code. Fortran 2003 and newer.
  - eesmith 8y ago
    Looks like no one else is going to answer. It's rather far from the usual topics covered on HN. As I said, I can't answer this topic either. I did find https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/8319/learning-fortran https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/8319/learning-fo... which has more suggestions about resources, including http://www.fortran90.org/ http://www.fortran90.org/ . There's also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2758635/writing-robust-and-modern-fortran-code https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2758635/writing-robust-a... . The author of the new book "Modern Fortran: Building Efficient Parallel Applications" is on HN, and posted about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16700789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16700789 . The discount code has since expired.
anujsharmax 8y ago
You can have a look at the github repo (https://github.com/rabbiabram/awesome-fortran https://github.com/rabbiabram/awesome-fortran). I would recommend pFUnit, which is fairly new, compared to the rest.

My summer internship involves fortran. I'm wondering if there are any really good example codebases I should look at to prepare.

eesmith 8y ago

I'm not a Fortran person and can't give you a real answer. I can suggest some things to help narrow down your search. Do you know if the code base is in Fortran 77, Fortran 90, or something more recent? It doesn't make sense to look at code base which uses a lot of Fortran 2008 features if you are going to be using F90. Which field will you be working in? If you are going to work on fluid dynamics it may not make much sense to look at an astrodynamics package. My limited search found a few places you might look at where people asked something similar to your question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2758635/writing-robust-and-modern-fortran-code https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2758635/writing-robust-a... https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/2328/are-there-open-source-scientific-libraries-which-use-modern-fortran-with-oop https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/2328/are-there-o...

Something1234 8y ago
It's all relatively new code. Fortran 2003 and newer.
- eesmith 8y ago
  Looks like no one else is going to answer. It's rather far from the usual topics covered on HN. As I said, I can't answer this topic either. I did find https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/8319/learning-fortran https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/8319/learning-fo... which has more suggestions about resources, including http://www.fortran90.org/ http://www.fortran90.org/ . There's also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2758635/writing-robust-and-modern-fortran-code https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2758635/writing-robust-a... . The author of the new book "Modern Fortran: Building Efficient Parallel Applications" is on HN, and posted about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16700789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16700789 . The discount code has since expired.

anujsharmax 8y ago

You can have a look at the github repo (https://github.com/rabbiabram/awesome-fortran https://github.com/rabbiabram/awesome-fortran). I would recommend pFUnit, which is fairly new, compared to the rest.