On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:49:34PM +0000, Ronan Cunniffe wrote:
> Because the numerical computation guys were given "Numerical Recipes in Fortran"
> as a programming textbook by their professors,and told that "f77" was the
> command to compile your program to runnable form.
Better than being given Numerical Recipies in C, which is basically
still in Fortran ;) Possibly the only serious text ever to use 1-indexed
arrays in C, "return array-1;", *shudder*.
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