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In 1968 all we had was McCracken's short book on FORTRAN and a large number of utterly inpenetrable IBM manuals. When IBM finally came out with "FORTRAN Programmers Guide", it was revolutionary. Asking other programmers was very useful.

None of this is useful for you other than discussing things with fellow programmers.

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