a general purpose library and file format for storing scientific data. It arranges data into datasets (multidimensional arrays) and groups (a structure for organizing objects). With extra software support like a viewer, etc...
an interface for array-oriented data access and a library that provides an implementation of the interface. The netCDF library also defines a machine-independent format for representing scientific data.
Guy Steele's keynote at the 1998 ACM OOPSLA conference on "Growing a Language" (mostly about JAVA) discusses the importance of and issues associated with designing a programming language that can be grown by its users.
G95 is a stable, production Fortran 95 compiler available for multiple cpu architectures and operating systems. Innovations and optimizations continue to be worked on. Parts of the F2003 standard have been implemented in g95.
Open Watcom is a project of the open source community, with support from Perforce Software, to maintain and enhance the Watcom C, C++, and Fortran cross compilers and tools. An Open Source license from Sybase allows free commercial and non-commercial use of Open Watcom.
K. Kennedy, C. Koelbel, and H. Zima. Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages, page 7-1--7-22. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2007)
J. Moreira, S. Midkiff, and M. Gupta. Proceedings of the 2001 joint ACM-ISCOPE conference on Java Grande, page 116--125. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2001)