Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!mlb.semi.harris.com!trantor.harris-atd.com!x102c!gbastin From: gbastin@x102c.harris-atd.com (Gary Bastin 60293) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: QuickSort w/o recursion. Message-ID: <5909@trantor.harris-atd.com> Date: 25 Mar 91 21:52:29 GMT References: <12120@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Sender: news@trantor.harris-atd.com Reply-To: gbastin@x102c.ess.harris.com (Gary Bastin 60293) Distribution: comp Organization: Harris Corporation GSS, Melbourne, Florida Lines: 31 In article <12120@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> ralph@uhheph.phys.hawaii.edu (Ralph Becker-Szendy) writes: > >Questions like this prove that "the book" has to be read by more people. Here >is the answer: Numerical Recipes, by Press/Flannery/Teukolsky/Vetterling, >Cambridge Univ Press. Comes with FORTRAN example programs. A reasonably good >sorting routine is among them... >The same program in PASCAL is in an appendix, and a version of the book in >C is available too. I should point out that in the latest FORTRAN version, the PASCAL appendix has been dropped. There is now a separate PASCAL version of the book. From what I understand, the original PASCAL appendix was essentially a straight translation from FORTRAN to PASCAL. The newer PASCAL version utilizes pointers and other features possible in PASCAL which the original FORTRAN appendix version did not include. The new FORTRAN version, according to the intro, represents the current state of the code, and does not include a list of changes from earlier FORTRAN editions. Can anyone comment on the current code's capability versus current standard practice. I am specifically wondering if some of the criticism I have read here on the net is more directed at earlier versions than at the current version. Thanks in advance! Gary Bastin, WB4YAF /-/-/ Internet: gbastin@x102c.ess.harris.com Mail Stop 102-4826 | phone: (407) 729-3045 Harris Corporation GASD | P.O.B. 94000, Melbourne FL 32902 Speaking from, but not for, Harris!