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- From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Where one can find a book on Microsoft Fortran?
- Message-ID: <92Aug17.153028.21390@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 15:30:28 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.004338.19871@wam.umd.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug17.004338.19871@wam.umd.edu> qian@wam.umd.edu (Yong Qian) writes:
- >I am looking a book on Microsoft Fortran (5.0). However, looking at local
- >book stores, I can hardly find any book on Fortran, none on MS Fortran.
- >I was just wondering if there are many people using Fortran on a PC. The
- >C and Pascal books are full of bookshelfs in those stores.
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- I would think that any book on Fortran, plus the Microsoft manual,
- should be more than enough.
-
- It's true that on some respects (such as mixed-lannguage), the manuals
- aren't that great, but your typical book on this or that software
- product isn't usually any better.
-
- Luc B
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