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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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- Subject: Re: Top 10 posters to comp.lang.c
- Date: 22 Feb 96 15:00:53 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- In <4gfvblINNn81@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) writes:
-
- >What makes you think that just because I don't settle for the cheapie $40
- >McGraw Hill knock off with missing pages, I must not have read the FAQ?
-
- It's not that bad. From the body of the standard, there is only one
- missing page: 132, and the contents of this page are reproduced, verbatim,
- in Plauger's "The Standard C Library", another reference text for any C
- programmer. There's also one missing dot in the definition of floating
- point constants. If you want to pay 3-5 times the price for the
- privilege of having the page and the dot, feel free to do so.
-
- >If I rip out the pages containing erroneous annotations, will the book store
- >give me a further discount? :)
-
- You can't do that. On the verso of every page containing Schildt's crap
- there's one page from the standard :-)
-
- >
- > > The text of the Rationale (not the full Standard) can be
- > > obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.uu.net (see question 18.16)
- > > in directory doc/standards/ansi/X3.159-1989, and is also
- > > available on the web at
- > > http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/rat/title.html . The Rationale has
- > > also been printed by Silicon Press, ISBN 0-929306-07-4.
- >
- >The Rationale is good, but it makes references which are meaningful if you
- >can follow them into the actual standard.
-
- Beware. The references in the Rationale use the "ANSI classic" section
- numbering, not the current ISO numbering. You'll need a conversion table.
-
- >I've thought about going after that annotated book, but who wants something
- >that has pages missing from the standard, and contains some incorrect
- >annotations?
-
- You don't have to read the annotations and they're not interspersed in the
- text of the standard. Simply ignore the right hand pages (or read them if
- you need some funny reading after a hard day's work :-)
-
- >It doesn't sound like the kind of Bible I would like to have on my
- >bookshelf.
-
- If you insist on getting the real thing, at least make sure that it
- contains TC1 and NA1 (see http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/index.html).
- I don't think that any vendor has implemented NA1 yet, however.
-
- >For the time being, I will stick with the good old K&R and its appendices, plus
- >the text of the Rationale.
-
- K&R2 + the FAQ would do the job for 99% of the stuff discussed in c.l.c,
- the remaining 1% being stuff which should have been posted to comp.std.c
- in the first place :-)
-
- Dan
- --
- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
- Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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