Re: Looking for a good Fortran 90/95 text for beginners

Mark Westwood wrote:

Yar

Steal a copy of Fortran 90 Programming by Ellis, Philips and Lahey, or,
if your commitment to freedom of information doesn't extend to theft,
Google around, you'll find useful sites like this:

http://www.liv.ac.uk/HPC/F90page.html

Ignore all advice to learn FORTRAN77 from free sources.

Since FORTRAN 77 is a subset and everything save for one or two things is in Fortran 90, it is a useful source of information. I would advocate a modern style, modern features, etc., but he asked for a free book and that's the only one I'm aware of.


Regards

Mark



yair999@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


Free if possible.

Thanks for any help.

Yair




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