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- From: ratti@singnet.com.sg (Utsav "Woodstock" Ratti)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Schildt <- Advanced Books
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 03:47:02 GMT
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- Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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- >>The only book that I know of that uses the notorious void main(void) is
- >>his "Teach Yourself C" book. But he only uses this for the first half
- >>of the book. This is only because he doesn't want the reader to be
- >>overwhelmed with all the data types and other things until he has a
- >>chance to explain how functions return values and pass arguments.
-
- >Which of course is an argument against void main(void). If he wanted to
- >avoid explicit types he could have written the well-defined:
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- >main()
- >{
- >}
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- >Instead he writes illegal code in addition to introducing one of the
- >stranger types that C has.
-
- <<stuff deleted>>
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- >I'll stress again that I'm only commenting on Schildt's books about C.
- >Given a subject he understands he could write an excellent book (and
- >probably already has).
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- I'm new to C, and happen to be using Shildt's "Teach Yourself C" as my
- tutorial. I'm about a fifth through the book and have never come
- across any declaration of void main(void). Maybe I'll find it later.
- Point is, as a beginner I really like this book. It's clear, concise,
- and easy to understand.
-
- And like you say, I'm taking what he teaches on trust -- for now.
-
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- Utsav Ratti
- E-mail: ratti@singnet.com.sg
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- United World College of South East Asia, Singapore
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