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- From: h9290246@hkuxa.hku.hk (Zsoter Andras)
- Subject: Re: "Avoid K&R" (says AOL)
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- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 12:18:43 GMT
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- HASDI RODZMANN HASHIM (hasdi@news-server.engin.umich.edu) quoted:
- >
- >: ---------- From AOL's C/C++ recommended reading list ----------
- >: BOOKS TO BE AWARE OF
- >: Avoid the K & R C Language book, as well as the Stroustrup C++ Programming
- >: Language book. These books were written to set a standard for developers
- >: of the language. They make awful tutorials, are hard to read, and
- >: generally just discourage the novice programmer. They are however good
- >: to win bar bets if you hang out at a programmer's bar.
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- Personally I don't find anything special about K&R but Stroustrup's C++
- Programming Language is definitly one of the best books I have ever seen
- about programming (not just about C++).
-
- Andras
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