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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
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Subject: Re: Num Recipes in C (Index converter or Diffs)
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Date: 10 Apr 91 23:05:04 GMT
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In article <1991Apr6.051923.22033@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> 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,

> 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.

I once had the opportunity to supervise someone who learned to program
in C from the Numerical Recipes in C book.  Needless to say, that style
is not a very good introduction to C.  I use Numerical Recipes more as
a reference guide than as a source of plug in code.

-john-

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