A guide to FORTRAN programming

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1. RNeffMar 2019
   A Guide to FORTRAN Programming by Daniel McCracken
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2. walshemjSep 2020
   This have changed at my first job (a long time a go) the second day I got an hours crash course in RT/11 (a DEC OS)

   I was told to learn FORTRAN IV from McCracken (A Guide to Fortran Programming)

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3. vezzy-fnordNov 2013
   They're all important, but arguably Ritchie was more directly influential to modern computing from a practical perspective.

   Fortran? Better designed? You're the first one I've seen who claims that. I'm assuming you're referring to the Fortran 90 standard and later, which cleaned up the language significantly and gave it a lowercase name. But the FORTRAN before that was simply ugly. I wouldn't call it Backus' starring moment. I'd say his research on functional programming and being a member of the ALGOL committee was much more important.

   Fortran ended up becoming more suited to a completely different domain than C, anyway. Numerical and scientific computing versus embedded systems and low-level programming with high-level imperative mnemonics.

   Haven't read A Guide to Fortran Programming, but K&R is still quite great, nonetheless. Although its habits are outdated by now in favor of ANSI C, it's still a handy reference.

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