"Beliavsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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.
Sun also provides its sun studio ide and compilers(c , c++ and fortran) free of charge on x86 linux just have to register for free. http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/ Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list