On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 06:20:56PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > >>>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K&R C is no longer current, and I think it will give gcc severe heartburn.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... > The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system > implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system. > This is what I understand is meant by "K & R C." Yes, but above I didn't say "K&R C" -- I referred to the C Programming Language book, which *does* cover ANSI C. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 73 degrees Fahrenheit.
