I encourage you to find a copy of "Classical Fortran" (M. Kupferschmid, ISBN 0-8247-0802-4) and read the first chapter. The clarity of purpose in this book, "simply using computers to do scientific work", is actually what convince me to initially adopt F77 as a teaching language.
R.W. Hamming (of Hamming code and Hamming window fame, among others) had a fine quote in his book Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers:
"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers." _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
