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Introducing Fortran 95
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Author: Jane Sleighthome, Jane Sleightholme, I. D. Chivers
List Price: $49.95
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ISBN: 185233276X
Publisher: Springer Verlag (October, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 527,890
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
needs proofreading
If you have never programmed, this might be an o.k. book. If you know already some other languages as I do you'd probably better of with some other text. I for myself feel like I wasted my money on this book. It is full of typos and has certainly not been proofread. For example, I found a passage explaining a particular programming example misplaced in an entirely different example. Some example programs have obvious mistakes and typos, which makes me wonder if all of them have ever been tried by the authors. The index has very limited use and in one instance pointed me to a page that is entirely wrong. Sometimes a programming example introduces a feature or syntax that is (intentionally or unintentionally?) not explained in the main text. The authors spent great effort on selecting witty quotes from the literature for every chapter. I wish that they had expended that effort on a more concise and correct content."Introducing Fortran 95" is clearly not a reference book. I believe that "Fortran 90/95 Explained" is probably a more useful book for most programmers even though I haven not even read it yet.
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