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

Open Beliavsky opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

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.

Beliavsky avatar Sep 14 '21 15:09 Beliavsky

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.

milancurcic avatar Sep 14 '21 16:09 milancurcic

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

certik avatar Sep 14 '21 17:09 certik

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.)

gklimowicz avatar Sep 17 '21 20:09 gklimowicz

I would love working on this issue! Could you please assign it to me?

harshit4311 avatar Dec 04 '23 11:12 harshit4311