very simple question

[manooel]

hello all, I am fairly new to the world of programming, I did some programming in fortran in college but it was in Linux. Fast forward a couple of years later and I am back in school and we are doing fortran again ... but this time there is no Linux, and I want to get it for my personal computer (windows vista, 64bit), so that I don't have to rely on the college PC's.

I understand that Fortran can be compiled on MS Visual Basic .... so before I shell out the money for MS Visual Basic Professional 2008, my question is, does the Intel Fortran Compiler come STANDARD with it or is this some additional add-on that must be purchased separately ? I never quite understood how that works.

Thanks a lot for your help,

Manuel

[onkelhotte]

Quoting - manooel

hello all, I am fairly new to the world of programming, I did some programming in fortran in college but it was in Linux. Fast forward a couple of years later and I am back in school and we are doing fortran again ... but this time there is no Linux, and I want to get it for my personal computer (windows vista, 64bit), so that I don't have to rely on the college PC's.

I understand that Fortran can be compiled on MS Visual Basic .... so before I shell out the money for MS Visual Basic Professional 2008, my question is, does the Intel Fortran Compiler come STANDARD with it or is this some additional add-on that must be purchased separately ? I never quite understood how that works.

Thanks a lot for your help,

Manuel

Intel Visual Fortran integrates in Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. I dont know if VS2003 is still supported in IVF11. The Visual Studio Express are NOT supported.

IVF comes with a simple version of Visual Studio, but about the diffenrences I cannot say anything(I think resource editor was missing) because we use VS2008 Professional at work. You do not have to buy any add-ons.

When you want to save the money for Visual Studio, you can use any text editor and compile from command line, but that is not very comfortable.

Since you visit school again: Do you get a MSDNAA account? There you get an Academic License of Visual Studio, that should work with IVF.

Markus

[j_clausen]

yes, you do mean "Visual Studio" and not "Visual Basic", Manooel?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

For most license types, Intel Visual Fortran comes with a Fortran development environment based on Visual Studio 2008 and there is nothing else to buy. Only Student and Evaluation licenses do not include this - Academic licenses do. This environment provides all you need to write, build, debug and run Fortran applications.

[noelandres17]

IMHO, if I were just learning Fortran and needed a compiler at home, I would go with the free GFortran compiler and the free Photran IDE. I would not expend money since it is not required.

Granted, Intel's compiler is one of the best in the market, maybe the best. But for the type of applications that you will
be writing I don't think you need the best compiler. So save your money and just expend it on good Fortran references.

[manooel]

thanks for your help guys !!
for now ill be using the gfortran free compiler to master the basics, but if things get serious, i might be looking into something more sophisticated.
cheers !