John Summerfied wrote:
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K&R C is no longer current, and I think it will give gcc severe heartburn.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.
Seems like an odd thing to say, you make it sound like C & C++ are
entirley different languages. C++ is C with some additional commands to
make handling objects easier and a stricter compiler. C++ doesn't do
strings in the same sense that C doesn't.
Regards.
Rick
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