The best way of keeping Fortran code alive is to keep it useable, useful, and used. This is what I have been doing with Powell’s Derivative-Free Optimization So

The best way of keeping Fortran code alive is to keep it useable, useful, and used. This is what I have been doing with Powell’s Derivative-Free Optimization Solvers. See PRIMA: http://www.libprima.net http://www.libprima.net Uploading the code to some repository is necessary but not sufficient — it is only the first step.