On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Juan Carlos wrote:
Dear Kaushal:
I used "C from A to Z", by Brian Costales (Prentice-Hall). It
is an old book, but very good. For C++ I used "Developing C++ Software"
by Russel Winder.
There is an old flame war. Some say that C and only C must be
used. Other say that only C++ has objects, encapsulation, etc. and it is
the greatest thing in the programming world. I see that the Linux kernel
has been written in C and I guess it is good: some C++ programs are
unreadable.
Another issue with C++ is that it is not very portable. If you stick with
gcc, you don't have as many problems, but if you try to use C++ compilers
from other vendors, you start getting into serious weird problems. Trying
to find what vendors support what features is the big problem here.
Because C++ has been a moving target over the last n+1 years, some things
were supported and some were not, depending on who's compiler you used.
Not to mention the reputation that C++ has for generating binaries that
are 33% (or more) larger than C.
Both have their uses.
As for books on learning C and/or C++... I use "C a Reference Manual" by
Harrison and Steele" for C. (As well as Steven's books on Unix
programming.)
As for C++, I use "The C++ programming language" by Stroustrup.
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Does Bjarne Stroustrup think of women as objects?
