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:You're welcome! Despite our family's many moves I also have a batch of old matchboxes with diagrams stuck on the top, but the smarties (or M&M) are long since eaten. I recall prowling the railway station at Manor Park to find fresh and firm matchboxes not badly stained by rust (from iron particles cast off from the train's brakes) - after a few soakings by rain the cardboard became too floppy and by then I had become a connoisseur of "Beehive" matchbox quality.
== Cheap Fortran ==
Hello. While writing on Zmi007's talk page, I couldn't help but see your previous comment that ''"I don't have access to a F2003 compiler, and don't want to spend my money to gain access, especially when the prices I've seen are around US$3,000."''
You may be interested to know that there are much cheaper compilers: Intel, PGI and Absoft are all less that $700 (at least single user licenses on Windows or Linux). Lahey Fortran has a cheaper version, and a slightly more expensive one ($850).
But I would recommend the free and open source GNU Fortran. Its conformance to F2003 and F2008 is getting better and better.
Also, some vendors are releasing a free version, usually for personal use, and usually for Linux. At least Intel, Pathscale, Oracle and (recently) PGI do that. Even if you use primarily Windows, you may get a Linux distro in VirtualBox to make tests on these compilers. It's interesting at least to see how a program will behave with another compiler.
I have once seen a free beta version of IBM XLF for MacOSX on PowerPC, but it was 10 years ago (when Apple had some success for HPC with its high-end PowerMacs), and it's not free anymore, and anyway Apple has switched to Intel processors.
If you have access to ACM publications, there is a document on conformance of compilers, released 3 or 4 times a year (ACM SIGPLAN Fortran Forum). The information is also available on Fortran Wiki ([http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Fortran+2003+status F2003], [http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Fortran+2008+status F2008]).
[[User:Arbautjc|Arbautjc]] ([[User talk:Arbautjc|talk]]) 19:08, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
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