[J3] hardware-independent Fortran compilers, was RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [BULK] Re: Niklaus Wirth

[Ondřej Čertík]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024, at 7:15 PM, Malcolm Cohen via J3 wrote:
> Jeff Hammond wrote:
>> Only gfortran, PGI+OldFlang and NewFlang are potentially hardware-independent.
> 
> I was going to let this go, but NAG Fortran has been available on 
> multiple platforms, e.g. VAX/VMS, OS/390, Apollo Domain,  to name three 
> very different ones, so is not only potentially hardware-independent, 
> but has been ported to many platforms over the years.

Thanks. I'll pitch in too:

LFortran is also hardware independent, today it is available for Linux/x64, macOS Intel and Arm, Windows/x64 and WebAssembly.

> Jeff Hammond wrote
> I mixed in the zero-cost dimension without writing it.
 
LFortran is zero-cost.

We are maintaining a fairly complete list of Fortran compilers here:

https://fortran-lang.org/compilers/

Both open source and commercial. If anybody finds anything that is not accurate or missing, please let us know.

Thanks,
Ondrej