gfortran

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2008-06/msg00046.html

http://budslist.org/hGQhJEaB8pEAAMZMA5AAAAAA.shtml

Interesting.

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/05/16/1225225.shtml

A FORTRAN PROGRAMMER WRITES SOME C++
( and makes it run efficiently)

The Humble Fortran Programmer

Well, the world did not come to an end, and the code worked well enough when it was all over; and I sure learned some new things and re-affirmed my faith in some old things.

Ran across this source for free e-books related to fortran. The Clive Page book is about fortran-77, a bit dated but an excellent coverage of the language.

http://www.computer-books.us/fortran.php

If you know of any other sources for similar material, please either post them in th comments or create a new 'story'.

fortran may not be as popular as java or C++, but it is a long way from dead. the fortran community is in a bunch of places:

For information on the development of gfortran, please go to http://gcc.gnu.org

Questions about gfortran can always be posted to http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran the gfortran mailing list ; or if you would prefer a more limited forum, on this website.

General purpose fortran crusades and flamefests are always available at http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.fortran/topics?hl=en&lnk=srg .

from the project website http://www.eclipse.org/photran

From http://fortran.com

The Fortran Tools include a Fortran 95 compiler with a graphical user interface that runs on Linux or Windows for $49 on a CD. The CD also includes several Fortran books in PDF format and many tools, such as Matran, a matrix computation library that uses the highly tuned Atlas libraries, a plotting package, and a library of routines to create GUIs for your Fortran application programs. For more information, go to the Fortran Store. A free version using the F subset may be downloaded here.

For the entire release notes see http://gcc.gnu.org

Below is the section specific to gfortran :

Fortran

* Due to the fact that the GMP and MPFR libraries are required for all languages, Fortran is no longer special in this regard and is available by default.
* The -fexternal-blas option has been added, which generates calls to BLAS routines for intrinsic matrix operations such as matmul rather than using the built-in algorithms.