Absoft tools Fortran integrated development environment

Although the roots of the Fortran language go back to the days of punch cards, it is still very much in use today and Integrated Development Environments are becoming increasingly popular with Fortran developers. An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a software tool that is used during all phases of program development. By combining the separate tasks of source code editing, compiling, linking, and debugging in a single unified interface, an IDE minimizes the amount of time spent learning separate tools. This article is an introduction to Absoft's Absoft Tools Integrated Development Environment for Fortran and C©++ programming. It provides an overview of the key features and presents an example of using the IDE to build an open source Fortran subroutine library.