Hi, my name is Manfredo di Porcia. I am a PhD student in computational ecology at Ghent University. I would like to write a small opinion piece about some aspects of fortran and C/C++ programming. I would like to ask a few questions related to the maintenance / development of the gfortran and gcc compilers. Is there anyone that could take 5 minutes to answer some of my questions? Thank you for your cooperation. Best regards, Manfredo