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K&R C is no longer current, and I think it will give gcc severe heartburn.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.
Right at the top of this quote is the mention of a book by K & R.
I used to have Digital Research C, and it (as did some others) came with that book.
To the best of my recollection it predates ANSI C.
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