FORTRAN 90

Spin Echo · Post by **Spin Echo** » 2006-10-01 09:49pm

Does anyone know where I could find a good FORTRAN 90 tutorial? All the stuff I've found so far seems to be aimed at people who already know FORTRAN 77, which I don't.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2006-10-02 01:22am

You could bang your head against your desk several dozen times. That would approximate the experience of working with Fortran adequately enough.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-10-02 07:40am

Durandal wrote:You could bang your head against your desk several dozen times. That would approximate the experience of working with Fortran adequately enough.

I couldn't agree more. The fucking common block was made for job security...

Spin Echo, you're probably going to have to wade through FORTRAN 77 first; its not exactly a popular, wide spread language.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-10-02 08:59am

Arrow wrote:Spin Echo, you're probably going to have to wade through FORTRAN 77 first; its not exactly a popular, wide spread language.

Well, in science and engineering it is.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-10-02 09:19am

phongn wrote:
Arrow wrote:Spin Echo, you're probably going to have to wade through FORTRAN 77 first; its not exactly a popular, wide spread language.
Well, in science and engineering it is.

True, but compared C/C++, Java, Visual Basic and the half ton or so of web langauges, in the general scheme of things, its not. He could almost certainly buy a book off Amazon for it, but I think he wants free info, so going through 77 first is probably the best bet.

Rekkon · Post by **Rekkon** » 2006-10-02 10:53am

Eh, I had to pick up FORTRAN 90 this past summer basically from scratch and did not find it difficult or unpleasant. Granted I am already fluent in C++ so it was mostly just learning the quirks and syntax differences. I had a couple books at my disposal but rarely used them, and most of the stuff I looked up online was just for bits of syntax.

Spin Echo · Post by **Spin Echo** » 2006-10-02 02:34pm

Arrow wrote:Spin Echo, you're probably going to have to wade through FORTRAN 77 first; its not exactly a popular, wide spread language.

Was afraid of that. Oh well, still better than scheme.

Arrow wrote:True, but compared C/C++, Java, Visual Basic and the half ton or so of web langauges, in the general scheme of things, its not. He could almost certainly buy a book off Amazon for it, but I think he wants free info, so going through 77 first is probably the best bet.

I had considered buying something off of Amazon, but by the time it would get to this remote corner of the globe, I won't be here. The libraries here have been even less helpful...

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2006-10-02 08:45pm

Have you tried Dymocks? I remember seeing a few oddball programming books the last time I was in there.

Spin Echo · Post by **Spin Echo** » 2006-10-02 09:19pm

Spyder wrote:Have you tried Dymocks? I remember seeing a few oddball programming books the last time I was in there.

Hadn't tried Dymocks. I tend to forget about it. I had only checked the two Whitcoull's and hadn't found anything.