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Fortran techniques with special reference to non-numerical applications

Fortran techniques with special reference to non-numerical applications Preface This book is intended to help those people who have learnt to program using the Fortran language, and who want to learn more of the tricks of the trade. A bewildering variety of books confront those who wish to learn the basic features of Fortran. Similarly, those who are using Fortran for mathematical purposes can choose from a number of books on numerical analysis. On the other hand, practical descriptions of commonly used techniques for non-mathematical applications are comparatively rare. Knowledge of such techniques tends to circulate as computer folk-lore in the absence of suitable books. This is the need which the present volume seeks to fill. The aim of this book is to be practical rather than theoretical, to help the programmer with a problem rather than to codify knowledge. The specialist in computer science will no doubt miss the terminology and symbolism with which he is familiar, and the long bibliography of theoretical works. Such specialists must turn elsewhere for satisfaction, since this work is designed for those to whom mathematical formalisations are an obstacle rather than a help. I

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