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From: seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Matthew Eric Seitz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Any Good ForTran Reference Manuals?
Message-ID: <2241@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Date: 9 Apr 88 06:46:41 GMT
References: <2138@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu" <1636@ut-emx.UUCP>
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Summary: Are ANSI Standards Reasonable to Read?

In article <1636@ut-emx.UUCP" reeder@ut-emx.UUCP (William P. Reeder) writes:
"In article <2138@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>, seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Matthew Eric Seitz) writes:
"> [...]
"> 					Matthew Seitz
"> 					seitz@cory.berkeley.edu
"
"When looking for a FORTRAN reference manual, I don't think you can beat
""ANSI X3.9-1978 American National Standard Programming Language FORTRAN".
"It is guaranteed to describe "standard" FORTRAN 77 (not a particular
"implementation) because it IS the standard.
"[...]
"-- 
"William {Wills,Card,Weekly,Virtual} Reeder	reeder@emx.utexas.edu
"
"Scholars who study dinosaurs say there were some smart dinosaurs and lots
"of stupid dinosaurs.  Those smart dinosaurs came along early, but in the
"survival wars, please note, the stupid dinosaurs won.
"
"DISCLAIMER:	I speak only for myself, and usually only to myself.

	I had considered ordering the ANSI Standard both for Fortran and
Pascal, as well as the ISO Pascal standard.  However, after reading some
excerpts of the ISO Pascal standard quoted in _Standard_Pascal_ by Doug
Cooper, I decided I'd be better of sticking to good third party reference
manual, due to the cumbersome language used in the standard.  By the way,
_Standard_Pascal_ is the best language manual I have ever read.  If anyone
is familiar with this book, and knows of a ForTran reference manual which
is comparable, please let me know.

						Matthew Seitz
						seitz@cory.berkeley.edu