On Mar 26, 10:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Is there a mac version?? > >Thanks > >Chris > > Yes. > > Several, in fact--all available at no charge. The Python > world is different from what experience with Fortran might > lead you to expect. Your experience with Fortran is dated -- see below. > > I'll be more clear: Fortran itself is a distinguished > language with many meritorious implementations. It can be > costly, though, finding the implementation you want/need > for any specific environment. Gfortran, which supports Fortran 95 and a little of Fortran 2003, is part of GCC and is thus widely available. Binaries for g95, also based on GCC, are available for more than a dozen platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. I use both and consider only g95 mature, but gfortran does produce faster programs. Intel's Fortran compilers cost about $500 on Windows and Mac OS and $700 on Linux. It's not free, but I would not call it costly for professional developers. Speaking of money, gfortran and g95 have free manuals, the latter available in six languages http://ftp.g95.org/ . Final drafts of Fortran standards, identical to the official ISO standards, are freely available. The manual for Numpy costs $40 per copy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
