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From: Richard Maine on 9 Apr 2008 16:53
Gerry Ford <gerry(a)nowhere.ford> wrote:

> You're gonna want to spell Metcalf correctly if you're to buy his book.
> It's probably gonna be north of $100, even used.

Maybe if you are talking monopoly money or some such thing. (Or perhaps
Zimbabwe money, which seems to be less valuable than monopoly money
these days). If that $ was American dollars, Amazon lists the book for
$65.95 new list price and references people selling it new for as low as
$55.

Hmm. I see that there is also a hardback version. Maybe that's what you
are talking about. I wasn't even aware that it was available in
hardback. I've never seen one of the hardback copies; maybe the $170
list price is why.

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From: dpb on 9 Apr 2008 16:55
Richard Maine wrote:
....
> ... I wasn't even aware that it [M, R & C, '03] was available in
> hardback. I've never seen one of the hardback copies; maybe the $170
> list price is why.

That'd do it for me... :)

--
From: Gerry Ford on 9 Apr 2008 18:12


"dpb" <none(a)non.net> wrote in message news:ftjaj5$kkj$1(a)aioe.org...
> Richard Maine wrote:
> ...
>> ... I wasn't even aware that it [M, R & C, '03] was available in
>> hardback. I've never seen one of the hardback copies; maybe the $170
>> list price is why.
>
> That'd do it for me... :)
I didn't know it came as anything other than hardback.
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From: John Harper on 9 Apr 2008 19:51
In article <Ltidnd7eQZHasWDanZ2dnUVZ_sOrnZ2d(a)comcast.com>,
glen herrmannsfeldt <gah(a)ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>Gerry Ford wrote:
>(snip, someone wrote)
>
>>>>The wikipedia page for fortran has good references, including what I
>>>>suspect would be the majority vote - Metcalfe, Reid and Cohen.
>
>> You're gonna want to spell Metcalf correctly if you're to buy his book.
>> It's probably gonna be north of $100, even used.

A second-best to MR&C is Adams, Brainerd, Martin, Smith and Wagener
"Fortran 95 Handbook", which, as its title suggests, contains none of
the f2003 enhancements. I use both because some things are easier to
find in ABMS&W than MR&C. ABMS&W reads more like a reference book,
MR&C more like a textbook. Also, Google may help you find a $0.00
version of the f95 and f2003 standards online: very useful if you
suspect that one or both of those books has an error or your compiler
has a bug, but less easy to read.

I have also perpetrated a brief (100K PDF) introduction to f95 for f77
users, at http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/math/papers/JFH10_f95_2007

-- John Harper, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,
Victoria University, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
e-mail john.harper(a)vuw.ac.nz phone (+64)(4)463 6780 fax (+64)(4)463 5045
From: Michael Metcalf on 9 Apr 2008 21:16

"glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah(a)ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message
news:Ltidnd7eQZHasWDanZ2dnUVZ_sOrnZ2d(a)comcast.com...
> It seems to be the Fortran 95/2003 Explained that is (much)
> more than $100.
>
>
If I might clarify the situation, the hardback version is not only expensive
but out-of-date. It is intended for libraries (we are informed). The much
cheaper paperback version has been reprinted, with additions, corrections
and interpretations, several times:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0198526938/qid=1117782070/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/104-4816905-7966337?v=glance&s=books&n=507846.

Regards,

Mike Metcalf


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