Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Num Recipes in C (Index converter or Diffs)
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.051923.22033@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1991 05:19:23 GMT
References: <14227@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <14227@helios.TAMU.EDU> jdm5548@tamsun.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley) writes:
>Numerical Recipes in C is a great book (praise, praise, praise),
>but, if any of you have ever tried to use their code, I'll bet
>you can guess what really ticks me off about it.... It seems
>that FORTRAN programmers wrote the C code ...

No secret about it:  it's a fairly mechanical translation of the original
Numerical Recipes book, which did everything in FORTRAN.  I decided to get
the original, so I could see the code without "benefit" of translation.
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