# Fortran on my Surface Laptop 4 For Business - Part 1

My Engineering Technology curriculum included a course in Fortran.  I learned many other languages since that time, but Fortran has always been a favourite.

I recently purchased a Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 for Business to develop applications for Windows.  Fortran would remain as one of my go-to languages along with C, C++, C#, and Assembly and all require Visual Studio.

I decided to install the latest version of Intel's Fortran compiler which requires Visual Studio (17.2.2, 2022) to run it.  Visual Studio 2022 requires a significant amount of disk space, so having it available to use it with C, C++, and C# makes the effort worthwhile.

![Intel Fortran 2022-05-26 003947.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1653540147259/3roijXVuQ.png align="left")

The Intel Fortran Compiler integrates seamlessly with Visual Studio 2022.

![Visual Studio 2022 and Fortran 2022-05-26 004750.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1653540611723/5zlocQdlh.png align="left")

![Visual Studio and Intel Fortran 2022-05-26 005440.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1653540958933/m_jbvy7GN.png align="left")

Installing Visual Studio 2022 and the Intel Fortran Compiler may require a significant amount of time to download depending on your internet connection.  We'll present a simple "Hello, World!" Fortran program in our next post:

```
program hello
    ! This is a comment line; it is ignored by the compiler
    print *, 'Hello, World!'
end program hello
```