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From: pswanson@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Paul Swanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Lattice C and Numerical Recipes
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Date: 20 Feb 91 17:11:23 GMT
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In article <1991Feb20.145015.21284@decuac.dec.com> baker@wbc.enet.dec.com writes:
>
>	I've found that one has to take the code in Numerical Recipes 
>	in C with a grain of salt (pardon the pun).  There are a lot 
>	of quirky little things that they do.  It's best to read their
>	description of the algorithm, get a good grasp on what they're
>	trying to do, then check the details of their implementation.
>
>	Regards,
>	 Art Baker

I have noticed that the C version of the code in Nerical Recipes is
directly transcribed from the Fortran version.  This includes things
like using array indicies starting with 1 instead of 0 and completely
ignoring the existence of pointers.  I tend to do my own translation
from Fortan to C because it comes out better.

Paul.