COMMERCIALIZATION OF NIST-DEVELOPED FORTRAN GRAPHICS STANDARD.f90gl, the FORTRAN interface for OpenGL graphics, is now emerging in commercial products. Private companies are including precompiled f90gl libraries with their LF95 FORTRAN compilers Noun 1. Fortran compiler - a compiler for programs written in FORTRAN compiling program, compiler - (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program , and have included f90gl in their graphics product. Several other compiler compiler Computer software that translates (compiles) source code written in a high-level language (e.g., C++) into a set of machine-language instructions that can be understood by a digital computer's CPU. vendors feature f9Ogl prominently on their web pages and plan to include f90gl in future releases of their FORTRAN compilers. OpenGL is a standard three-dimensional graphics library available on most current computer systems. Developed by NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. , f90gl is a public-domain implementation of the FORTRAN 90 bindings for OpenGL, which also were developed by NIST and adopted by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board The OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB) is an industry consortium that currently governs the OpenGL specification. It was formed in 1992, and defines the conformance tests, approves the OpenGL specification and advances the standard. . f90gl runs on most Unix and Windows computers. Although the source code for f90gl has been placed in the public domain, many compiler vendors have found that their customers prefer the convenience of precompiled libraries. |
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