FORTRAN Tools for VAX VMS and MS-DOS

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 447 pages
• Published by: John Wiley & Sons
• Edition: 1st Edition October 19, 1988
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0471619760
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471619765
• Book Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.3 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 3.7 ounces

The publisher, John Wiley & Sons
How to write software tools in Fortran. Demonstrates good programming style with programs and routines that illustrate important design principles and methods. Includes many real, working programs--these programs are documented and tested, and they are portable. The style is pragmatic and informal, with brief discussions of the theory behind several advanced programming techniques. Shows how to systematically subdivide a large problem into smaller ones that are easier to solve, and how to design Fortran programs around data structures. Also contains in-depth discussions of file I/O and character data processing in Fortran, hash tables, lexical analyzers, compilers, and machine instruction sets.

Reader Reviews
Sadly, crucial sections of this book have become obsolete, through no fault of the author. VMS still exists. But the company that made the Vaxes, DEC, was taken over by Compaq, which was then taken over by HP. Now, HP maintains VMS, in order to keep that customer base. But it very much is a replacement market, whose long term prospects are slim. It is very expensive for HP to have to maintain an entire operating system, and HP is trying to migrate VMS users to HPUX/linux. Then, MS-DOS is now superseded by various Microsoft Windows versions, like XP. The book predates any recent MS Windows graphics abilities. So unless your Fortran code has output that is strictly text, the book's advice about UIs made be moot.