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From: shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Decent FORTRAN books?
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.161838.4436@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 91 16:18:38 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <13270@pt.cs.cmu.edu> rsc@rsc.boltz.cs.cmu.edu (R Scott Crowder) writes:
>Does anyone have a list of decent fortran reference books?  I am looking for
>something like K&R or the Harbison & Steele C reference books...

Metcalf, "Effective Fortran 77", Oxford U. Press, is excellent.  It's very
careful with standard conformance, and has some good stylistic hints as
well;  he "deprecates" certain features.

My main problem with it is a poor index;  you pretty much have to read the
whole book to know where to find something.

	-P.
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