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These are Gary Ferland's notes on C.  This is a preliminary version of a document that would have helped me during my C learning experiences.  It assumes that the reader has a fair degree of experience with Fortran.

These are based on my experiences in converting Cloudy from Fortran 77 (with MilSpec extensions) to ANSI/ISO C.  Cloudy does not do graphics, so there is no discussion of graphics here.  The code is almost entirely algorithmic.  The bigger problems were with i/o, strings, block datas, and the global namespace, all of which are quite different in C from Fortran.

The chairman of AT&T
Said, "Your graduate physics degree
Is not worth a penny,
Of your kind we've too many.
Perhaps you can program in C?"

Steve Langer, from the ASP Limerick page

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