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From: Oscar A. Moreno on 9 Apr 2008 08:32
Dear List,

Can someone recommend a good book (understandable) to update my Fortran IV
basis to the newest and greatest incarnation of the language?

TIA

From: paul.richard.thomas on 9 Apr 2008 09:06
On Apr 9, 2:32 pm, "Oscar A. Moreno" <os...(a)hutchinsconsultant.com>
wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> Can someone recommend a good book (understandable) to update my Fortran IV
> basis to the newest and greatest incarnation of the language?
>
> TIA

Dear Oscar,

The wikipedia page for fortran has good references, including what I
suspect would be the majority vote - Metcalfe, Reid and Cohen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran

Note, also, that "language features" is a pretty good reference for
fortran95.

Cheers

Paul
From: Bart Vandewoestyne on 9 Apr 2008 11:51
On 2008-04-09, paul.richard.thomas(a)gmail.com <paul.richard.thomas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The wikipedia page for fortran has good references, including what I
> suspect would be the majority vote - Metcalfe, Reid and Cohen.

I confirm. Mike, John and Malcolm's `Fortran 95/2003 Explained
(Third Edition)' is -in my opinion- the best book you can buy for
your purpose.

Regards,
Bart

--
"Share what you know. Learn what you don't."
From: Gerry Ford on 9 Apr 2008 16:34


"Bart Vandewoestyne" <MyFirstName.MyLastName(a)telenet.be> wrote in message
news:WB5Lj.18942$Wf3.3071(a)newsfe16.ams2...
> On 2008-04-09, paul.richard.thomas(a)gmail.com
> <paul.richard.thomas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The wikipedia page for fortran has good references, including what I
>> suspect would be the majority vote - Metcalfe, Reid and Cohen.
>
> I confirm. Mike, John and Malcolm's `Fortran 95/2003 Explained
> (Third Edition)' is -in my opinion- the best book you can buy for
> your purpose.
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.

I'm disappointed with the alternatives. I have _Programming in Fortran 90_
by I. M. Smith and find it useful but lacking rigour in spots. There's a
lot that's happened in the language since F90. It's cheaper than MR&C. I
had a hundred dollars to spend yesterday, but it was on chimney parts. It
would be nice to be able to buy books with impunity.

I think Elliot Chandler has a book he likes that isn't MR&C. I wish there
were a book in fortran that went over the same material as does K&R for C:
building up the functions from scratch that turn out to be intrinsics.
--

"That this social order with its pauperism, famines, prisons, gallows,
armies, and wars is necessary to society; that still greater disaster
would ensue if this organization were destroyed; all this is said only
by those who profit by this organization, while those who suffer from it
- and they are ten times as numerous - think and say quite the contrary."

~~ Leo Tolstoy


From: glen herrmannsfeldt on 9 Apr 2008 16:56
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.

The paperback of Fortran 90/95 explained
used is down to $25 at amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0198518889/

It seems to be the Fortran 95/2003 explained that is (much)
more than $100.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/019852692X/
http://product.half.ebay.com/Fortran-95-2003-Explained_W0QQprZ30775604QQtgZinfo

-- glen

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