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- From: hou@agouron.com (Xinjun Hou)
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- Subject: Re: Switching from Fortran to C
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.062328.23138@agouron.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 06:23:28 GMT
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- In article <EJH.92Sep9092350@khonshu.colorado.edu> ejh@colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett) writes:
- >I am in the process of doing the same and my advice is: take a C
- >course. I never needed a course in any computer language or
- >....
- >
- >.... My feeling is
- >that C is such a compact language, with such a rich history of it's
- >own way of doing things, that it's harder to learn. FORTRAN, BASIC,
- >Pascal, and even Lisp were easy, but C takes a little more effort. I'm
- >convinced it will be worth it though.
- >
- > Ed
- >--
- >Edward Hartnett ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu
-
- For experienced programmers, "The C programming language" by B Kernighan and
- D Richie is a very good introduction and reference book. The 2nd Ed is ANSI
- C style.
-
- (Hi Ed, Dataman)
-
- Xinjun
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