On Apr 9, 2:32 pm, "Oscar A. Moreno" hutchinsconsultant.com>
wrote:

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

On 2008-04-09, paul.richard.thomas@gmail.com gmail.com> wrote:

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

"Bart Vandewoestyne" wrote in message
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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.

Gerry Ford wrote:
(snip, someone wrote)

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

Gerry Ford wrote:

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.

Richard Maine wrote:
...

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

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"dpb" non.net> wrote in message news:ftjaj5$kkj$1@aioe.org...

I didn't know it came as anything other than hardback.
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- and they are ten times as numerous - think and say quite the contrary."

~~ Leo Tolstoy

In article comcast.com>,
glen herrmannsfeldt ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

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.

"glen herrmannsfeldt" ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message
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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....

Regards,

Mike Metcalf

On Apr 9, 4:34 pm, "Gerry Ford" wrote:

[snip]