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From: wws@raphael.cray.com (Walter Spector)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Decent FORTRAN books?
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Date: 7 Jun 91 03:20:50 GMT
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References: <1991Jun5.161838.4436@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: wws@raphael.cray.com (Walter Spector)
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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.

I also enjoy Metcalf's "Fortran Optimisation" book.  It was published in
about '82 and is starting to get a bit dated though.  Apparently he has
also recently published a book on Fortran-90.  Metcalf works at CERN and
knows Fortran quite well.

Walt
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