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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 15:05:07 -0600
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- In article <dewar.823793016@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >Peter says
-
- >"I would argue that K&R is a workable textbook."
-
- >For what? teaching C? but that is not what people are looking for, people
- >look for CS1/CS2 text(s) that use a particular language. K&R is not even
- >vaguely relevant, except as an auxiliary reference book.
-
- Sorry; I had been (I thought) responding to a claim that K&R would be a poor
- book from which to teach C. I would consider C an excellent book to teach C
- from. The authors themselves, I believe, state that the book assumes some
- prior programming experience. (Although a good math or philosophy background,
- and some computer use, seems to suffice.)
-
- >Yes, for just learning C, K&R is fine.
-
- Quite. :)
-
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