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Why is the book "The Practice of Programming" listed? #100

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Beliavsky opened this issue Sep 14, 2021 · 4 comments
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Why is the book "The Practice of Programming" listed? #100

Beliavsky opened this issue Sep 14, 2021 · 4 comments
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@Beliavsky
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Why is the book Kernighan, B. and Pike, R.. 1999. The Practice of Programming listed? It's a well-regarded book, but I don't think it covers Fortran.

@milancurcic
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I vaguely recall the rationale (if there was any) was that the book is useful for Fortran programmers, even if it doesn't cover Fortran. I may be making that up. I'm fine with this book being listed or not.

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certik commented Sep 14, 2021

I would either not list it, or create a section "general programming books" and list it there.

@gklimowicz
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I wonder if someone was thinking of Kernighan and Plauger's book Software Tools, which used a structured version of Fortran called Ratfor. (This is a really old book, though, from 1976.)

@awvwgk awvwgk transferred this issue from fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org Aug 19, 2022
@awvwgk awvwgk added the section: learn Relevant for the learn section on the webpage label Aug 19, 2022
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I would love working on this issue! Could you please assign it to me?

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