FORTRAN

yellowputty · 22 Jan 2011 at 19:00

Hello all,

I've just begun working on a project at university that requires me to know FORTRAN, and in particular FORTRAN 77. There's not THAT much information about FORTRAN online, in terms of learning the basics, and then moving through the ranks. Could anyone suggest a suitable book? Please only answer if you know a book is particularly good.

Also, how different is 77 to 2003? Is it sensible learning the 2003 revision?

Thank you.

NickK · 23 Jan 2011 at 10:45

If university have stated 77 you should use 77... (not at Teesside uni doing numerical computation by any chance?).

GNU's GCC has a Fortan 77 compiler.

Only thing I remember is to ensure you've initialised the GINO library with the correct precision before using it.

BullBoyShoes · 23 Jan 2011 at 10:48

Why learn fortran in this day and age, its not exactly cutting edge?

Vertigo · 23 Jan 2011 at 11:07

The main thing I remember is that Fortran 77 doesn't support recursion of any kind, whereas the later versions do.

This might be important. When we had to do a project in Fortran 77 at Uni (20+ years ago), they tasked us with writing a Quicksort program - the whole point was to work out how to do it without using recursion