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Title: Programming in F by T. M. R. Ellis, Ivor Philips, Miles Ellis, Ivor R. Philips ISBN: 0-201-17991-1 Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Textbook Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $52.50

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: great book for a great language
Comment: F is Imagine1 Inc.'s new language (or rather a dialect), consisting of the actual 90 / 95 parts of Fortran 90 / 95, available for Windows / Macintosh / Unix / Linux. In other words, it doesn't have the junk (go to, strange If's) of old Fortran 66 / 77 but includes pointers and structures a la C. The F language is easier to use than C (and Java), and deserves to be the Turbo Pascal of the 2000's for statisticians / behavioral scientists / engineers / scientists, in terms of it being a great, general language (although it could do with graphics / interface / commercial numeric libraries). This book is not the sort of thing that can be read in an afternoon, but it is both very comprehensive and very clear, if you're willing to keep at it. Recommended!

Rating: 5
Summary: An interesting topic...
Comment: I found this book quite by accident. After looking at the F programming language, I found that while F is quite general, there is a class of programming problems for which there is no F-ing way to solve. I am hopful that the future CORBA or COM IDL compilers will start recognizing the "-fthis" command-line switch and start allowing me to F with COM (or is that COM with F)? DB