Silverfrost Personal Fortran is a Fortran95 compiler that is free for personal use.  According to the suppliers:

“With Silverfrost FTN95: Fortran for Windows you can create console based, conventional Windows® and Microsoft .NET applications. Silverfrost FTN95 is the only compiler that can produce Microsoft .NET applications that can use the full Fortran 95 language. Silverfrost FTN95 also boasts its world leading CHECKMATE run-time checking technology that finds bugs fast!

Silverfrost FTN95: Fortran for Windows is now available free for personal and evaluation use. To try the compiler click here.”

What does this have to do with Excel?

My next post will deal with linking Excel to Fortran DLL’s, using the Silverfrost compiler.