Programming docs (was: Silly)
Matthew wrote:
>
> On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
> > >
> > > Where is the documentation for C ? i.e. language help?
> > > I have a hard time remembering syntax and stuff.. :)
> >
> > You're best off just buying "The C Programming Language" (ANSI edition).
> > It isn't very expensive and the hardcopy is handy. There may be some free
> > stuff on the web though, try www.infoseek.com.
> >
> Hmm. I prefer Schildt's C the complete reference.
Hmm. As long as you don't believe the C++ part, it might work.
Some people get very aggressive about this Schildt person. He actually
wrote one quite thick book, and published many somewhat smaller subsets
of it. But I digress.
For information on the C-library, install the libc documentation (for
hamm that would be the libc6-doc package), and read the info files. For
information on graphics, you will have to refer to the O'Reilly series
on the X-window system (for X11, not very `compact'), or use a toolkit
like gtk and read its docs, or use svgalib and its docs or use
tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk, plotutils (nice for graphs mostly, no gui stuff) and
there respective docs/man pages. Are we confused or delighted about so
much freedom of choice?
HTH,
Eric
PS:
Would be people be so nice to consider meaningful subjects for their
posts? Please?
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