GFortran is the name of the GNUFortran 95compiler, which is part of the GNU Compiler Collection. GFortran will replace the g77 compiler, which stopped development at GCC version 4.0. GNU (pronounced ) is a free software operating system. ... Fortran (also FORTRAN) is a computer programming language originally developed in the 1950s; it is still used for scientific computing and numerical computation half a century later. ... A diagram of the operation of a typical multi-language compiler. ... The GNU Compiler Collection (usually shortened to GCC) is a set of programming language compilers produced by the GNU Project. ...
GFortran is still under development, however it can properly run and compile programs on various platforms. In computing, a platform describes some sort of framework, either in hardware or software, which allows software to run. ...