> 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 K&R C is no longer current, and I think it will give gcc severe heartburn. This statement is false. As a matter of fact if you use the programming methodology in this book, you're good to go on any true ANSI C compiler, which includes gcc... Directly from http://www.gnu.org about gcc: "The GNU Compiler Collection is a full-featured ANSI C compiler with support for K&R C" > > 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. Learn how to use the appropriate libraries/functions that limit the number of input characters and buffer overruns are no issue. > > 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. This is false. Read more about it here: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html. > > The act you _can_ write almost any program you can conceive in C doesn't > mean you should do so. This is true, but it depends on what you intend to do with the language. I don't know of any C based languages that can outperform C for computational based programming. > > C doesn't do strings. This is false. Read the "string.h" library. It's specifically written to handle strings. > C doesn't do fixed-point. I don't know what is meant by this. If it means floating point, again this is incorrect. C is capable of performing computations with integers, floats, and doubles. What else is there? > 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. If you want to learn an easy OOP then Java or C# are the best place to start. The foundations of all of the languages C++, Java, and C# are based on C.
