Re: Fortran 95/2003 Explained -- due in Sep '04

From: Gary L. Scott (garyscott_at_ev1.net)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 17:29:42 -0500

Gerry Thomas wrote:
>
> "Bernhard Georg Enders" <bgeneto@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:opr8ozn6zvvukmyo@lion...
>
> [...]
>
> I wouldn't waste money in ordering any of these if their predecessors are
> anything to go by: deadly dull, poorly written, vacuously academic, vague,
> unenlightening, uninspiring, ambiguous, ambivalent, ever so political
> correct as to be useless, etc., but most of all, bankrupt of anything other
> than a rehash of the standard with minimal extension and lacking of even
> one ball but endorsed by such quenched luminaries as CERN, oxford, ISO, UN,
> UNESCO, the PTA, BSA, NRA, blah, blah, blah: kind of like the 'Peter
> Norton' tomes of Fortran, they look good, have lots of pages, nice type and
> layout, but most of all they have no original content and their errata
> remain C.L.F., so why waste taxpayer's money when a decent IRS inspector
> would call into question the purchaser's your own waste and why that folly
> should be underwritten by the public: disallow the item and let the
> proponent order 1, 10, 100, etc, copies at their personal pleasure and
> expense?
>
> Give to the United Way or other worthy cause and bypass this bogus Fortran
> scam.
>

Pretty mean spirited. I welcome all of these book entries. I'm sure
there will be something I don't like (as in everything else), but it
does the language good to have lots of choices (if we could get them
into the book stores even better). I would have probably just called it
"Fortran 2003 Explained" though. Not really necessary to refer back a
standard even if the content fully decribes the differences.

> --
> E&OE
>
> Ciao,
> Gerry T.
> ______
> "We are all in this together son!" -- Harry Tuttle (Robert DeNero), in
> Brazil (Terry Gilliam).
> Gerry T. 

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