New Fortran bbok

[deltaquattro]

Ps I forgot to ask: did anybody read the following book?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0857292323/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

What do you think of it?

[robert....@oracle.com]

Thank you for the pointer.

I have not read the book, but I know that the authors are
well-respected.

Robert Corbett

[deltaquattro]

Good! I'll buy it and have a look.

Sergio Rossi

[Cal Dershowitz]

On 05/16/2012 03:57 AM, deltaquattro wrote:

We americans will always be grateful for people who buy technical books
on whim, because that's dying in our species, like literacy.
--

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

On 6/12/2012 2:14 AM, Cal Dershowitz wrote:

>
> We americans will always be grateful for people who buy technical books
> on whim, because that's dying in our species, like literacy.

I love technical books. (Engineering/Math/Physics is what
I like). Too bad that many used technical book store are
going out of business. Near UC Berkeley there used
to be few good technical book stores, many have closed. In
LA Area, there is one good store left. In Portland,
Powell's is laying off employees now and last time I
visited it, had much fewer tech. books than before.

Libraries are closing down (The NY main public library
is moving half its actual books to storage now).

Borders and Barnes 'N' Nobles closing down many stores,
etc...

I hope that the main reason is that people are moving
to e-books and buying used books from Amazon and the
like and not that people do not like to study or
read books any more.

I also think the printed book itself is going out
of fashion, as everything is now online. I actually
find the e-book (pdf for example) is better as
I can search for something in it much faster than
hardcopy. But for long time reading, I still prefer
hard copy. (hard to sit on screen for hours
reading equations)

Information now is on-line now. PDF books are everywhere.
Wiki is there. google search, etc.. Less need for
actual books.

So, Blame it all on Tim Berners-Lee. He invented the
internet :)

--Nasser

[michael...@compuserve.com]

Tim invented the World-Wide Web, not the internet!

Regards,

Mike Metcalf

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

Ok, let us then blame it all on the real inventor of
the internet: Vice president Al Gore !

--Nasser

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

michael...@compuserve.com wrote:

(snip, someone wrote)

>> So, Blame it all on Tim Berners-Lee. He invented the
>> internet :)

> Tim invented the World-Wide Web, not the internet!

You know that, I know that, but I expect the large majority of
people believe that the Web IS the Internet.

You might convince a few that e-mail (Pop,Imap,Smtp) was also
internet, but maybe only a few.

-- glen

[michael...@compuserve.com]

Well, for my sins, I was using the internet 10 years before the web was invented (one of my early e-mail addresses was mbm@cernvm: no domain or country), so it really is for me a clear distinction. Maybe I'm just a grumpy old pedant!

Regards,

Mike Metcalf

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

(snip, someone wrote)

>> > Tim invented the World-Wide Web, not the internet!

(then I wrote)

>> You know that, I know that, but I expect the large majority of
>> people believe that the Web IS the Internet.

>> You might convince a few that e-mail (Pop,Imap,Smtp) was also
>> internet, but maybe only a few.

> Well, for my sins, I was using the internet 10 years before
> the web was invented (one of my early e-mail addresses
> was mbm@cernvm: no domain or country), so it really is for
> me a clear distinction. Maybe I'm just a grumpy old pedant!

From the BITNET days! I remember BITNET and DECNet e-mail,
and gateways in between, and to SMTP mail.

Yes, likely a good fraction of people posting to this group
used e-mail from before the WWW days.

My first home e-mail was UUCP based from an OS/2 host to a
unix host at work, routed through to the Internet. Not so long
after that, I had IP routed through 9600 baud modems to my home
network.

-- glen