Classical Fortran

Rating:
Summary: how about newer versions of Fortran?
Review: I am unsure how much new this book really offers over Fortran texts of the last decade. It goes over the standard syntax in an adequate fashion. But no better or worse than most such other texts.

The author has chosen to describe Fortran 77, which may be still the most widely used variant of Fortran. But perhaps more discussion about the newer versions that came out in the 1990s might make this book more relevant to some potential readers.

The style of the examples is totally procedural, as befits that version of Fortran. To some extent, this may not matter, given the length of the examples. And it lets students concentrate on coding the numerical aspects of their solutions. But it can leave them unaware of the scaling difficulties when such programs grow. Which is an acknowledged problem with Fortran libraries, given the length of time [decades] that some of these libraries have been maintained and added to.