| beliavsky@aol.com 2005-05-20, 8:57 pm |
| The book is written by David R. Lemmon and Joseph L. Schafer, is
published by Springer, and costs $60 (softcover, 328 pages),
The first chapter and the code examples are at
http://methcenter.psu.edu/fortranbook/ . I think the book may be
worthwhile to Fortran programmers on Windows, even if they are not
writing statistical software. I have ordered the book but not yet
received it.
Table of Contents:
Motivation
Introduction to Modern Fortran
A Pseudo Object-Oriented Style
Implementing Computational Routines
Developing a Console Application
Creating and Using Dynamic-Link Libraries
Creating COM Servers
Creating COM Clients
Description:
"This book gives statisticians, biostatisticians and
methodologically-oriented researchers the tools they need to develop
high-quality statistical software. Topics include how to:
Program in Fortran 95 using a pseudo object-oriented style
Write accurate and efficient computational procedures
Create console applications
Build dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) and Windows-based software
components
Develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs)
Through detailed examples, readers are shown how to call Fortran
procedures from packages including Excel, SAS, SPSS, S-PLUS, R, and
MATLAB. They are even given a tutorial on creating GUIs for Fortran
computational code using Visual Basic.NET.
This book is for those who want to learn how to create statistical
applications quickly and effectively. Prior experience with a
programming language such as Basic, Fortran or C is helpful but not
required. More experienced programmers will learn new strategies to
harness the power of modern Fortran and the object-oriented paradigm.
This may serve as a supplementary text for a graduate course on
statistical computing."
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