Matthew Miller wrote:
PS: if you want a book on C instead of C++, don't bother with anything but the original book by the language's creators: C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. As I said before, C is an elegant and small language, and this book is all you need. (Although you may also want to pick up The UNIX Programming Environment by Kernighan and Rob Pike.)
K&R C is no longer current, and I think it will give gcc severe heartburn.
There are altogether too many mistakes a C programmer can make that will give rise to all sorts of program bugs including buffer overruns, pointer overruns and underruns and many more.
There are uses for C; it was originally designed for programming operating systems and such, and really is not well-suited at a general-purpose programming language.
The act you _can_ write almost any program you can conceive in C doesn't mean you should do so.
C doesn't do strings. C doesn't do fixed-point. Both are needed in business applications.
C++ is another matter altogether, and provided programmers use the C++ features, code written in C++ is likely to be more reliable than equivalent code written by equivalently-capable C programmers.
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Cheers John
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