Digital Visual FORTRAN Programmer's Guide (HP Technologies)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 776 pages
• Published by: Digital Press
• Edition: 1st Edition April 1, 1999
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1555582184
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1555582180
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 2.7 pounds

Product Description
Digital Visual Fortran is the latest version of a major programming language tool used by scientists and engineers. Written by key technical writers from the Digital Visual Fortran product team, Digital Visual Fortran Programmer's Guide presents in printed form the critical portions of the official programmer's guide, previously only available online. The result is the authoritative book on Digital Visual Fortran's features and how to use them to create effective applications.


Digital Visual Fortran is the language of choice for computation-intensive scientific and engineering applications, financial applications, and other programs. Digital recently acquired Fortran technology and rights from Microsoft that allows them to use the Microsoft Developer Studio Integrated Development Environment, which is featured in Microsoft's Visual C++ and Visual Basic. The result is that Digital Visual Fortran is much easier to use and looks and works much like Microsoft's industry-leading programming products for other market segments.

The official programmer's guide to Digital Visual Fortran for Version 6.0A
Authors are experts from the Digital Visual Fortran product group
New Digital Fortran version include Microsoft interface and object technologies

Book Info
Presents the critical portions of the official programmers guide, otherwise only available online and adds important new material. Details the complete process of developing digital Visual Fortran Version 6 applications, from choosing a project type through building and debugging. Softcover. DLC:FORTRAN (Computer program language).

Reader Reviews
This is not really a book to learn Fortran from. It spends relatively little time on the language itself. Rather, it is devoted to showing how to compile and run Fortran code under a Microsoft operating system and development environment. Lots of grubby fiddling around with DLLs, as you might expect. And the IDE does not seem as nice as others for C# or VB. But perhaps this should not be surprising. The latter languages are far more heavily used on Microsoft machines, so the company concentrates its support there.