Fortran for Humans Book?

From: Patrick Rigney <patrick_at_evocative.com>
Date: Fri Dec 6 11:03:01 2002

Jeffrey,

I didn't learn from it myself, but a lot of people I worked with that were
"non-technical" (geologists, geophysicists, etc. that weren't formally
trained in CS) used it at the time. I was working for a company that did 2D
and 3D modeling software (c 1980), and it was written entirely in Fortran,
implemented as a library. To use it, you had to be able to write at least a
small program to read your data from a file, and make calls into this
library (about 30 lines with the right data sets would give you 3D wire mesh
perspectives of Mount Saint Helens before and after eruption, for example).
Rex's book helped a lot of people be very productive, and it was a bible
among the project staff. I also happen to have a copy of his book in my
library, still, on the shelf next to Knuth, Sutherland, et al. It's a
classic.

Patrick

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> Behalf Of Jeffrey Sharp
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> Subject: Fortran for Humans Book?
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>
> Did anyone here learn Fortran from, or just read, any book called "Fortran
> for Humans" or "Fortran 77 for Humans"?
>
> I just found out: The CS prof I've been spending so much time with for the
> last two years, Rex Page, was the principal author of this book. If anyone
> has memories of it (good or bad :-), I bet he would get a kick out of
> hearing about it at our next meeting.
>
> --
> Jeffrey Sharp
>
>
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