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- From: mangino@planet.net (Reed Mangino)
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- Subject: Recommend a book, REALLY!
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 00:46:38 -0600
- Organization: Planet Access Networks - Stanhope, NJ
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- Let me tell you how things are going: I started to read Schildt's "C The
- Complete Reference" and I almost cried myself to sleep. I don't even
- know the language well and I could tell this thing bites!
-
- Then I get a book called "C In Plain English". On page 245 of the
- ***C*** book he writes: test_val = int(sqrt(n)); Is it me or is that the
- function style of casting to an int that our friend C++ likes? On page
- 240 he declares, "To the following is perfectly legal:
- void fnct(const char str[], const double *px, *py);
- I am wondering what type *py has. He does this kind of crap throughout
- the darn book!
-
- I have been programming in C++ for about 3-4 years, so I already know how
- things work I just need to get a good, SOLID, book on C (just C!) I have
- ordered the K&R text along with an annotated book on the standard C
- library (this might help me understand how things _should_ be done in C,
- not to mention that I have been using iostream.h forever!)
-
- If you could please recommend a book that might be appropriate to my
- situation, PLEASE DO! :)
-
- Thanks for your time, and I hope Schildt and Brian Overland are soon to
- be frozen with Walt Disney!
-
- Reed (C++ -> C, hhmmmm)
-
- PS - Kudos to the kind gentleman who gave me this advice, "Reed why don't
- you just read a C++ book backwards!" Yea, I need this kinda sarcasm
- after reading Schildt!
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