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- Subject: Re: C books
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- From: Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower)
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:00:43 GMT
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- In article <KERS.92Jul22091829@cdollin.hpl.hp.com> kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) writes:
- [...]
- >I was completely put off the Dabhand book when I picked it up in a bookshop,
- >opened it at random, and encountered the statement that it was unwise to use
- >definitions of the form
- >
- > type *tp = &p;
- >
- >``because tp won't point anywhere yet''. This confusion of initialisation with
- >assignment caused me to put the book back on the shelf post-haste. Has there
- >been a second edition?
- >
- > Of course there is Kernigan and Ritchie .....
- >
- >If you already know how to program in some language, I reccomend K&R (make sure
- >you get the second - ANSI C - edition). If not, Harbison and Steele (also the
- >second edition, I think) is supposed to be pretty good.
- [...]
- >Regards, | ``In fingers of trees, and valleys of gold | Judy Tzuke
- >Kers. | I watch as you outshine the charlatan foe.'' | Higher & Higher
-
- I had a detailed look through the first edition of the Dabhand guide,
- it could have been a lot better, to put it diplomatically.
-
- K&R 2nd ed, covers ANSI "C", is what I use as my main reference, for
- both home (Archimedes) and university (assorted UNIX boxes). It has
- the best index I've ever seen in a manual. It has a sort of tutorial
- which is OK, if you've already learnt how to program.
-
- I would reccomend using the ANSI protyping facility, and enabling all
- the warning messages. It is a lot safer... I speak from more years
- programming than I care to admit, and in more languages than I can
- remember! (Though I must admit I've managed to avoid Pascal and
- Modula II!)
-
- Gavin
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