Re: Online F77 information...

In article <454561a9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
lindahl@xxxxxxx (Greg Lindahl) writes:
In article <ei2jvc$8kk$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steven G. Kargl <kargl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1162134967.465961.171190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"magesing" <magesing@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

I'm teaching myself FORTRAN 77,

The name of the language is Fortran not FORTRAN.

This newsgroup often suffers from 2 incredible an intentional
rudenesses; this is one.

I would suggest that you start with Fortran 95 instead of 77.

... and this is the other. If the guy is trying to learn the language
in order to support a F77 program on a platform with only F77, then
it's just plain rude to suggest this with no qualifiers. You don't
know what his situation is; ask before giving unsolicited advice.

Sheez.

Sheez, it seems you clipped the helpful part of my post.
So, I'll restore it here!

"Go to www.fortran.com. There are numerouos links to follow."

I pointed him to www.fortran.com where one can find numerous
links to tutorials, information of books, a link to the actual
Fortran 77 standard, several valuable libraries, and information
about both noncommercial and commercial compilers.

If the OP really wants to stick with Fortran 77, then from
www.fortran.com one can quickly find Ian Chivers and Jane
Sleightholmes excellent text.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/support/cit/fortran/f77book.html

Of course, the advice you provided to OP is priceless. Oh
wait, you forgot to address the OP.

Sheez.

--
Steve
http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/
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