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From: mwette@csi.jpl.nasa.gov (Matt Wette)
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Subject: Re: Decent FORTRAN books?
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Date: 6 Jun 91 03:11:22 GMT
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In article <1991Jun5.161838.4436@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) writes:
>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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>Peter S. Shenkin, Department of Chemistry, Barnard College, New York, NY  10027
>(212)854-1418  shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu(Internet)  shenkin@cunixf(Bitnet)
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My favorite is
	"Fortran 77," by Harry Katzan, Jr., Van Nostrand Reinhold
	Company, 1978

No style hints. Fortran 77, and all of it, with a few example
fragments to give you the idea.  Too many Fortran programming
books omit the obscure parts of the language.  How many readers
know that the following is legal and know what it is used for?

	SUBROUTINE XYZ(I, *, *, *)

This is covered in the above reference.

Matt
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