Posted in 2020

Fortran newsletter: December 2020

Welcome to the December 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out at the beginning of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.

This month we've had a few updates to the website:

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Fortran newsletter: November 2020

Welcome to the November 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.

This month we've had a few additions and improvements to the website:

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Fortran newsletter: October 2020

Welcome to the October 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.

This month we've had only one minor change to the website:

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Fortran newsletter: September 2020

Welcome to the September 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.

We continued the work on the Fortran-lang website, specifically:

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Fortran newsletter: August 2020

Welcome to the August 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.

We continued the work on the Fortran-lang website, including:

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Fortran newsletter: July 2020

Welcome to the July 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.

Work has continued on the Fortran-lang website, including a new community page and additional tutorial content:

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Fortran newsletter: June 2020

Welcome to the June 2020 edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter. The newsletter comes out on the first calendar day of every month and details Fortran news from the previous month.

The Fortran website has been up since mid-April, and we've already got great feedback from the community. In the past month we've updated the Compilers page which is now comprehensive and includes all major open source and commercial compilers. The Learn page has also seen significant updates—it's been reorganized for easier navigation and currently features a quickstart tutorial, Fortran books, and other online resources.

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Fortran newsletter: May 2020

Welcome to the first monthly Fortran newsletter. It will come out on the first calendar day of every month, detailing Fortran news from the previous month.

If you came to this newsletter from elsewhere, welcome to the new Fortran website. We built this site mid-April and hope for it to be the home of Fortran on the internet, which traditionally there hasn't been any to date. Look around and let us know if you have any suggestions for improvement. Specifically, Learn and Packages are the pages that we'll be focusing on in the coming months. Please help us make them better!

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Open Source Directions Fortran webinar

Ondřej Čertík (@ondrejcertik) and Milan Curcic (@realmilancurcic) spoke yesterday about the future of Fortran in Episode 40 of the Open Source Directions Webinar. We discussed the current state of the language, how it's currently developed, and what we can do today to build the Fortran community, ecosystem of packages, and developer tools.

Watch the episode now:

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FortranCon 2020

FortranCon 2020, the first international conference targeting the Fortran programming language, will take place on July 2-4, 2020, in Zürich, Switzerland.

FortranCon aims to bring together developers of Fortran libraries, applications, and language itself to share their experience and ideas. The conference is organized in two full days of speaker presentations on July 2 and 3, and a half-day workshop with lectures and hands-on sessions on July 4. Click here to submit an abstract.

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J3 February 2020 Meeting

The J3 Fortran Committee meeting took place in Las Vegas, NV, on February 24-28, 2020.

The following people / companies attended:

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