icsu8209@attila.cs.montana.edu (Glassy) (11/27/90)
We have one (1) work on the new version of FORTRAN in our library: "Fortran 8X Explained" by Michael Metcalfe Can anyone recommend other books on Fortran-8X (-90, -Extended)? From a quick peek at Metcalfe's book, it appears Fortran's keeping the things I've always liked about it (simplicity), while including a few things I've always wished it would have (record-like data structures, recursion). Are any commericial compilers available for Fortran Extended? If not, any guesses as to when such compilers will be available? Thanks in advance, Lou Glassy (icsu8209@caesar.cs.montana.edu) "FORTRAN -- The Language of The Future" ;)
andyo@glasperl.masscomp (Andy Oram) (11/27/90)
I recently asked a similar question here about what books and other training
projects are being developed for Fortran 90. In addition to Metcalf and Reid,
the only other work I know of is:
Brainerd, Walter S., Charles H. Goldberg, and Jeanne C. Adams,
Programmer's Guide to Fortran 90, Intertext Publications, McGraw-Hill
Book Company, New York, 1990.
Since Brainerd posts here regularly, I'll let him talk about it in detail if
he wants.
Someday, I hope, the sparse list of books will be joined by one of mine.
About ten people have volunteered to act as reviewers, and others are
certainly welcome, including readers of this newsgroup.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------wsb@boise.Eng.Sun.COM (Walt Brainerd) (11/28/90)
In article <ANDYO.90Nov27104030@glasperl.masscomp>, andyo@glasperl.masscomp (Andy Oram) writes: > the only other work I know of is: > > Brainerd, Walter S., Charles H. Goldberg, and Jeanne C. Adams, > Programmer's Guide to Fortran 90, Intertext Publications, McGraw-Hill > Book Company, New York, 1990. > > Since Brainerd posts here regularly, I'll let him talk about it in detail if > he wants. Of course, I would love to talk about it in detail, but I will just say that it is available from the _Fortran Journal_ for $5 less than the list price, including shipping in the US. Contact me for details. > Someday, I hope, the sparse list of books will be joined by one of mine. When any Fortran 90 books or Fortran 90 compilers come out, the _Fortran Journal_ would like to publicize them. So let me know about them. Thanks. -- Walt Brainerd Sun Microsystems, Inc. wsb@eng.sun.com MS MTV 5-40 Mountain View, CA 94043 415/336-5991